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enable us to furvey, without an* invo- 

 luntary horror, the mangled carcafes of 

 inoffenfive animals, expofed in a London 

 market, who have been killed to gra- 

 tify our appetites, and whofe care and' 

 follicitude for the prefervation of life, 

 demonstrates that they enjoyed a degree 

 of happinefs therein, of which at leaft 

 it is cruelty to deprive them. Man's 

 right over the lives of fubordinate ani- 

 mals I will not dirpute ; the apparent 

 difference in the mechanifm of the maf- 

 ticatory and digeftive organs of carnivo- 

 rous and granivorous animals, evidently 

 dernonftrates, that Nature defigned fome 

 for the prey of others : But mankind 

 have a natural capacity for fubfifting in- 

 difcriminately, either on animal or ve- 

 getable food ; and numerous inftances 

 teftify, that the latter is mod conducive 

 to health and longevity ; and therefore 

 not only humanity, but felf-intereft, con- 

 Spire to engage us at leaft to abridge the 



quantity 



