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ting their disgusting race. Had it been other- 

 wise, the earth would have soon swarmed with 

 beings more shapeless and revolting than any 

 fabled of Circe or the loathed Sycorax ; and 

 neither grace, nor beauty, nor fitness, nor pro- 

 portion would have characterised, as they do, the 

 works of God. 



