popular Spbr It and Extrdses. ^OJ 



own importance, and that of their fcHawr 

 citizens will be felt and esteemed ; and wlKre 

 just an(i equal laws protect the life and; pro- 

 perty of the meanest, of the people,; and 

 consequently private injuries caa'be r:^dfes6ed 

 by an appeal to the tribunals of justice, .maa 

 will be less disposed to be the, avctiger of his 

 own wrongs. — Besides, ignorance .\i> coni- 

 monly the parent of cruelty. Now. it may be 

 safely asserted,, that the inowledgie of fnin's 

 duties both towards .his neighbour an(jijii> 

 Creator, are better understood and morewi^e^y 

 diffused amongst the mass of the people ;ift 

 this kingdom, than in those otherwise ci- 

 vilized countries, where a jthirst for the blood 

 of their fellow-creatures seems chieHy to- pre- 

 vail. These eminent moral and political ad- 

 vantages are tne powerful counteracting causes 

 of that spirit of barbarism which cruel diversions 

 are calculated to excite. If it be desirable then 

 to efface the harsh lineaments of rudeness, and ^ 

 want of feeling nearly allied to brutajity, 

 which ^till mar the otherwise fair visage of 

 thp national character, let all barbarous diver- 

 sions be entirely .>lished ; but especially let 

 the sport, of buli-b*iitii,ig.be the first, offering to 

 be sacrificed at the shrines of humanity and 

 justice ! "A diversion,** fo speak of it in the 

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