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cular sympathy the affection Oi^ the lower animals to their young, on the 

 ground that this feeling is in them the result of corporeal sensation only, 

 and wholly different from that love which human parents feel for their 

 offspring. It is true that the latter involves moral considerations which 

 cannot have place in the brute creation ; but it would puzzle such ob- 

 jectors to explain in what respect tlie affection wliich a mother feels for 

 her new-born infant the moment it has seen the light differs from that of 

 an insect for its progeny. The affection of both is purely physical, and in 

 each case springs from sensations interwoven by the Creator in the con- 

 stitution of his creatures. If the parental love of the former is worthy of 

 our tenderest sympatiuus, that of the latter cannot be undeserving of some 

 portion of similar feeling. 



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