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Creator; who has indeed given us ail 
‘Things richly to enjoy, has likewife 
given us fuch an abfolute Right of 
Life and Death over all-his Creatures, | 
that we may kill them wantonly at, 
and for, our Pleafure.. I know no 
Right we have over the Life of the 
meaneft Infeé@t, or vileft Worm that 
creeps upon the Earth, unlefs the kil- 
ling it be fome Way or other, ufeful 
and beneficial to us. We may take 
away the Lives of our Cattle, in order 
to fupport our own with the Flefh of 
them; but it would be a criminal 
Piece of Cruelty, as well as Folly, to 
butcher an innocent Sheep meerly for 
the Sake of its Fleece, which we might 
take again and again, without hurting 
it. If then we can take from our 
Bees, a confiderable Quantity of their 
Honey and Wax, without injuring 
them; if they will work for us an- 
other, and many other Years, and 
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