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with a ſpecies of rhetoric, pitiful as it is perverſe, will you ſtill perſiſt in your endeavour to perſuade us, that to murder an innocent animal, is not cruel nor unjuſt; and that to feed upon a corpſe, is neither filthy nor unfit?
O that man would interrogate his own heart! O that he would liſten to the voice of nature! For powerfully ſhe ſtirs within us; and, from the very bottom of the human heart, with moving voice the pleads. Why, ſhe cries,
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oh!