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For the power of
human feeling is great; the connection of blood is of mighty power; nature herself cries
out against suspicions of this sort; it is a most undeniable portent and prodigy, for
any one to exist in human shape, who so far outruns the beasts in savageness, as in a
most scandalous manner to deprive those of life by whose means he has himself beheld
this most delicious light of life; when birth, and bringing up, and nature herself make
even beasts friendly to each other.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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