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the great fcale of creation, I crufh him with 

 as little mercy as a chambermaid cracks a 

 hopping flea. If you knew the acutenefs of 

 his bite, you would feel aflured that he is not 

 tortured with a lingering death. Nothing can 

 be more prompt than his execution, and I 

 think I might venture to aflert that he fuflfers 

 not a fingle moment of pain. 



While my pen is employed upon this 

 mighty fubjedt, it occurs to me as a queftion 

 whether even the rigorous principles of the 

 mod devoted Brahmin would fo difcipline his 

 mind in religious and philofophical forbear- 

 ance, as to induce him, deliberately, to brufh 

 from his {kin a flea, or a mufquito, that was 

 infliding fharp pain upon him, and robbing 

 him of his blood ? I do not remember ever to 

 have feen, or heard of a perfon whofe hu- 

 manity led him to fpare the life of a poor flea, 

 although he is a very innocent little fellow, 

 when compared to the fanguinary mufquito : 

 but it has occurred to me to fee a gentleman, 

 from a pure regard to the life of all created 

 beings, tenderly and carefully put away a 

 mufquito that was bleeding ,him by the nofe. 

 He is a man whofe general condud is guided 



