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is, if not below, at least proportioned to their size, we equally 

 believe that the benevolent Creator has endowed them with 

 capabilities of enjoyment far exceeding the measure of their 

 bulk. 



"With however little pain the insect may die, it is certain 

 that it lives with pleasure ; and we are not therefore justified, 

 through wantonness, or for any insufficient object, in shorten- 

 ing even for a moment (perhaps to it a year) its term of en- 

 inherited " Lease of Life." 



