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I cannot find any great Difference on the Foot of natural Reason and Equity only, between feeding on human Flesh, and feeding on brute animal Flesh, except Custom and Example.
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To see the Convulsions, Agonies and Tortures of a poor Fellow-Creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify Luxury, and scratch callous and rank Organs, must require a rocky Heart, and a great Degree of Cruelty and Ferocity.
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George Cheyne
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Born:
1671
Died:
April 12, 1743
(aged 72)
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George Cheyne M.D. R.C. E.d. R.S.S. was a pioneering physician, early proto-psychologist, philosopher and mathematician.
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