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globe; may we learn to recognize and to reſpect in other animals the feelings which vibrate in our ſelves; may we be led to perceive that thoſe cruel repaſts are not more injurious to the creatures whom we devour than they are hoſtile to our health, which delights in innocent ſimplicity, and deſtructive of our happineſs, which is wounded by every act of violence, while it feeds as it were on the proſpect of well being, and is raiſed to the higheſt ſummit of enjoyment by the ſympathetic touch of ſocial ſatisfaction.
