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an- two; Moral L'vil, of ulneh In- is himself the 

 fountain, li:is accumulated into an immense ocean, 

 which COM ri :nnl aflliets tin \\hole surface of the 

 earth. I'hy-ica! < \ il, on tin- contrars , i^ i. -trained 

 within \ery narrow bounds: it seldom appears 

 alone, for it is always accompanied with an equal, 

 il not a superior good. Can happiness be dcnu d 

 to animals, when they enjoy freedom; have the 

 faculty of procuring subsistence with ease, and pos- 

 more health and organ> capable of affording 

 more pleasure than those of the human species? 

 Now the generality of animals are most liberally 

 endowed with all these sources of enjoyment. The 

 aded Sloths are (jcrhaps the only animals to 

 whom Nature has been unkind, and which exhibit 

 io us the picture of innate mist 



In opposition however to this eloquent ha- 

 . v. c may venture to suppose, without any 

 fear of being in the wrong, that the Sloth, notwith- 

 standing this appearance of wretchedness and de- 



>ity, is as well fashioned for its proper modes 

 and habits of life, and feels as much pleasure in its 

 solitary and obscure retreats, as the rest of the 

 animal world, of greater locomotive powers, 

 >u|n rior e\ti rnal elegance. 



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