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ing animals, delight to ſcrutinize; ye dare alſo to violate the human form auguſt; and, holding up the entrails of man, ye exclaim; behold the bowels of a carnivorous animal (6)!—Barbarians! to theſe very bowels I appeal againſt your cruel dogmas; to theſe bowels, fraught with mercy, and entwined with compaſſion; to theſe bowels which nature hath ſanctified to the ſentiments of pity and of gratitude; to the yearnings of kindred, to the melting tenderneſs of love!

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