LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN. 17 



he combines, analyses, re-combines, compares, ar- 

 ranges. New ideas give rise to new pursuits, and 

 new pursuits to new ideas. Thus his stock of 

 knowledge is continually augmented, as his sources 

 of ideas are multiplied; till his power, resulting 

 from his knowledge, is only inferior to that of his 

 Creator. The lion is lord of the forest ; but man is 

 lord of the lion. The stag and the antelope out- 

 strip the wind ; but man outstrips the antelope and 

 stag. The most powerful of the brute creation 

 become his obedient slaves. The tiger is hunted 

 and slain, or entrapped and imprisoned, and his 

 savage ferocity made subservient to his master's 

 amusement and profit. Man's superior reason, 

 therefore ivhich he owes to his faculty of speech 

 constitutes his weapon of offence and defence. 



And here, again, I have been forestalled by the 

 Bard of Teios, a vastly different personage, to be 

 sure, from Alexander's tutor, but, nevertheless, one 

 whose authority must not be disregarded : 

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