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Strange and perhaps often incorrect as may be many of the ideas 

 of this dear and enthusiastic old naturalist, there is solemn and sad 

 truth, in what he says in the last sentence I have quoted regarding 

 " every thing" " good and beautiful" and " whatever is defective 

 and deformed." Notwithstanding our success in our scientific breed- 

 ing of domesticated animals, I fear that most of their miseries and 

 ailments t have in one way or another been " imposed on them by 

 " the empire of man." 



