July 



Each of nature's works must have its place, and 

 it is man's fault or his great misfortune, if his 

 view of it is not at such an angle as to reveal 

 therein a consistent element of the whole. 



A bird's range of speculation is necessarily 

 limited, but about such matters as lie within 

 its province it has very decided opinions. It 

 would be interesting (possibly not flattering) to 

 learn its estimate of mankind ; for perhaps there 

 is no other creature that recognizes more quick- 

 ly and keenly the difference between a human 

 being and any other animal, and in its constant 

 discrimination there is ground for clear convic- 

 tion. 



Man is pleased to recognize among the evi- 

 dences of his supremacy in the world an un- 

 doubted acknowledgment of it in the lower 

 animals. Even a fierce wild beast may stand in 

 awe of him, and occasionally it is reported that 

 a savage monster has quietly walked away, 

 rather than try to endure his steady and intrepid 

 gaze. Some are so sanguine as to believe that 

 every ferocious quadruped would similarly quail 

 and retire, were it not that in almost every such 



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