CANNIBALISM. 



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Deerat adhuc, et quod dominari in csetera posset, 

 natus homo est." 



If man had originally been formed by his Maker, 

 to be a cannibal, that is, as I have just observed, 

 to feed upon his fellow-man, in order to satisfy the 

 craving of his hunger, there does not seem to 

 have been any particular objection, why Cain, after 

 his murder of Abel, should not have had a joint 

 out of him, for his own dinner. 



Still, there is no mention made, that Cain, 

 on this occasion, did treat himself to a feast on 

 any part of his brother's body. Wherefore, we 

 may safely infer, that, man was not created to feed 

 upon his own species : and, that when he is abso- 

 lutely reduced to the sad necessity of doing so, 

 he is either instigated .by ungovernable passion, 

 or else, he is reduced to the terrible necessity of 

 prolonging his existence, by casting lots to deter- 

 mine which man shall die to save the lives of the 

 rest: — as in cases of shipwreck, or in other 

 dreadful disasters, where nothing remains, and 

 where nothing can be found, that will support 

 life, short of the terrible sacrifice. 



I would not call people, in this shocking 

 dilemma, by the name of cannibals. Neither, 

 would I fear to be sacrificed by them, were T 

 unexpectedly to come up with them ; fully confiding, 



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