186 ANIMALS KILLED TV. 
nature, that thefe beings are connetted with 
other beings, confequently that the ifolations 
exift only in the general fyftem, wonder fhould ~ 
ceafe, or at leaft be diminifhed, fince it only arifes 
from our ignorance of the relations that connect 
the clafles enjoying the privilege of refurreétion 
with thofe that do not. ‘This is not the only 
ifolated fa&t which has exifted, and at firft been 
confidered an exception to general laws. The 
works of Reaumur, Trembley, Bonnet, will com- 
municate many. The exceptions appeared fin- 
gular, becaufe they were feen but in one in- 
ftance. A plant, an animal of a new genus, or 
poffeffing peculiar -properties, is the origin of 
fuch exceptions, till farther obfervation and folid 
experiment proves them adapted to feveral cafes, 
either in the fame circumftances, or under modi- 
fications, and proportioned as human induftry 
has been applied to diverfify the number of fub- 
jets, and render them fo numerous, that they 
can no longer be called exceptions. The fur- 
prife that affects the mind from fomething new 
or extraordinary gradually diminifhes and var 
nifhes entirely. One or two examples will cor- 
roborate and elucidate thefe refleCtions on refur- 
gent animals. 
One of the moft effetual methods to deftroy: 
animals is to cut them in pieces : nothing is more. 
common or betterknown. To fay this is a mode 
of 
