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promenade, and offer a commanding view of 

 the country adjoining. Could the mind di- 

 veft itfelf of all idea of the unhappy caufe 

 which renders fuch barriers neceflary, they 

 might be regarded as the ornamental Im- 

 provement of the place : but, too commonly, 

 gloomy refledlons conned with them, from 

 the contemplation of the cruel ferocity of 

 our nature, which requires that fuch defence 

 fliould be oppofed to thofe of our own fpe- 

 cies, and prevents mankind from aflbciating 

 in the peaceful harmony of one great family. 

 That men fhould need to be thus protcded 

 againft each other, is a melancholy refledion, 

 ^nd almoft amounts to a contradidion of all 

 the boafted advantages of our reafoning fa- 

 culty. The wild beafts of the foreft war, only, 

 from the calls of appetite, md even under 

 the powerful impulfe of hunger, devour not 

 thofe of their own fpecies— but man ! favage 

 man ! who boafts the exclufive faculty of 

 reafon, employs his talents to the deftrudion 

 of his fellow beings, and without even the 

 plea of the beaft of prey— that nature im- 

 pels him to it by the appetite flie has given 

 bim. 



