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Now how is this to be accounted for ? " O," 

 you will say, " cows and sheep prefer the tender 

 leaves to the hard stems, and therefore leave the 

 latter." Just so : but why do they prefer the one, 

 and leave the other ? The seed-stems were not 

 passed by accidentally, you allow; they must, 

 therefore, have been suffered to remain by de- 



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sign either of the animals or of the all-wise God, 

 who gave to each its peculiar instinct ; and if so, 

 what is the object of that design ? I will leave 

 you to answer this question for yourself, only 

 helping you to solve it by asking another, viz., 

 From what would the annual grasses spring next 



