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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Poor Brutes...Before they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in ago...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54569090">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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