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APPENDIX. 



Paper read at the Ninth Meeting, by Dr. Booth.* 



" On the Duality of Geometrical Relations. 



" The physical inferiority of man, when contrasted and 

 compared with the various species of animals which hold con-: 

 fessedly a subordinate position in the scale of created beings, 

 is so obvious as to have almost always arrested the attention, 

 and encouraged the speculation of enquirers into the natural 

 history and progress of mankind. Inferior in strength to the 

 elephant or the ox, to the horse and camel in swiftness, to the 

 dog in courage, in patient endurance of want and fatigue 

 nearly to all ; left by the apparent harshness of nature unpro- 

 tected against the extremities of heat and cold ; with feeble 

 and awkward means of personal defence, he would appear at 

 first sight rather the outcast than the favoured of creation. 



" Were we to make the supposition that the whole of the 

 animals by which the earth was at that time replenished, were 

 passed in review before some higher order of intelligence, not 

 admitted, however, into the future designs of Providence; 

 such intelligence would, I say, arguing from natural appear- 

 ances and from the physical qualities then manifested, have 

 inferred that man would in all probability soon become extinct 

 upon the earth; that in a few centuries the human species would 

 be classed with those of the unicorn or the dodo ; or that, 

 if it survived at all, it would be in some of the small and 



* This ussay should have appeared at page '!>, bul was nut received in lime. 



