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trample upon living Bodies; one Animal never paſſes unmoved by the dead Carcaſs of another Animal of the ſame Species: there are even ſome who beſtow a kind of Sepulture upon their dead Fellows; and the mournful Lowings of Cattle, on their entering the Slaughter Houſe, publiſh the Impreſſion made upon them by the horrible Spectacle they are there ſtruck with. It is with Pleaſure we ſee the Author of the Fable of the Bees, forced to acknowledge Man a compaſſionate and ſenſible Being; and lay aſide, in the Example he offers to confirm it, his cold and ſubtile Stile, to place before us the pathetic Picture of a Man, who, with his Hands tied up, is obliged to behold a Beaſt of Prey tear a Child from the Arms of his Mother, and then with his Teeth grind the tender Limbs, and with his Claws rend the throbbing Entrails of the innocent Victim. What horrible Emotions muſt not ſuch a Spec-