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mysterious instrument — the all instructive
and all persuasive Art.
Such art is the reasoning of Dr Paley:
and of the public that is the thinking part
or that which ought to be the thinking part
of it, the very minute portion to which
matters of this sort appear worth a thought
the reasoning how much it were to be wished
would not be — it is feared — is not of a
stamp much superior to that of Dr Paley.
In England human sacrifices are
in use in this shape. In Mexico human
sacrifices were in use on a ground somewhat
different, and much narrower. In
England "public compassion" at least the
compassion of public men has never yet found
any difficulty in enduring human sacrifices
in the English taste. If in the University of
Mexico to read lectures the Reverend Teachers
of the Religion of Vitzliputzli would have
found as little difficulty in proving the necessity
of the exact number of such sacrifices made
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