334 MISCELLANEOUS. 



compatible with the Christian character- but totally at 

 variance with that of a good or profound Naturalist. 



The character of a good Naturalist necessarily implies that 

 of a good man, one who looks with reverential awe and 

 admiration on the works of the Almighty framer of the 

 universe, who made no one being in vain or without its use, 

 for as Cowper justly says, 



An inadvertant step may crush the Snail, 

 That crawls at even'g in the public path ; 

 Yet, he that has humanity forewarned, 

 Will step aside, and let the reptile live. 

 For they are all the meanest things that are, 

 As free to live and to enjoy that life. 

 As God was free to fornn them at the first j 

 Who in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. 



The various subjects composing the three kingdoms of 

 nature, so artfully contrived, so wonderfully propagated, 

 and so providentially supported, seem to have been intended, 

 by their Alwise Creator, for the convenience of man, to 

 whose uses every thing is rendered subservient ; he tames 

 the fiercest animals, he pursues and catches the swiftest, 

 whether, like himself, they roam on the surface of the green 

 earth, float in the circumambient air, or glide through the 

 abyss of the ocean. 



He encreases the number of vegetables affording foodful 

 substance, and from this kingdom obtains what is necessary 

 and convenient for food, for cloathing, for medicine, and 

 for an endless variety of other purposes. 



