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their natural ftate, are ftruck, at fight of him, with" 

 love, or terror; this we fhall demonftrate by more 

 than one curious remark. Thus, too, is fulfilled 

 the Word which conferred on him the original 

 fovereignty of the World : -^ *' And the fear of 

 ** you, and the dread of you fluall be upon every 

 *' beaft of the Earth, and upon every fowl of the 

 " Air, upon all that moveth upon the Earth, and 

 " upon all the fiflies of the Sea: into your hand 

 *' are they delivered." 



As he is the only being who has the difpofal of 

 Fire, which is the principle of life, fo he alone 

 pradlifes Agriculture, which is it's fupporr. All 

 frugiverous animals have, like him, occafion for it, 

 moil of them the experience, but no one the prac- 

 tice. The ox never thinks of refowing the grain- 

 which he treads out in the barn floor, nor the 

 monkey, the maize of the field which he plunders. 

 We are prefented with far-fetched theories of the 

 relations which may fubfift between brutes and 

 Man, in the view of reducing them to a level, 

 while the trivial differences are overlooked, which 

 arc continually before our eyes, and interpofe be- 

 tween us and them an immcafurable interval, and. 

 which are the more wonderful, the more eafy it 

 appears to furmount the difficulty. 



* Genefis ix. z. 



Every 



