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— does not always require care and foresight, espe- 

 cially if living objects be removed from a natural to 

 an artificial position. Doubtless the " savage," as 

 we call him, somewhat too contemptuously, enjoys a 

 considerable amount of health, but when he is placed 

 within the pale of civilization, — when, i. e., he is 

 rendered liable to the stimulus of "fire-water" and 

 to the depressing influence of the impure exhalations 

 of a camp or a town life, — he needs more than the 

 former care to secure to himself those conditions 

 which the Creator has decreed to be necessary to the 

 well-being of this section of His creation. Evi- 

 dently, then, if we have been instrumental in effecting 

 this local and material change, it becomes our duty 

 to secure also the additional precautions which can 

 only be efl:ected by an extra amount of trouble. 

 And if this is true in the case of a man, it is equally 

 true in kind, though not in degree, in the case of a 

 Sea-Anemone. 



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