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and rapine, they would not have exerted them ; since 

 we find that sheep, calves, goats, horses, greedily eat 

 milk and eggs, which are animal food, and that, un- 

 aided hy custom, they do not refuse meat which has 

 been hashed and seasoned with salt. 



We need not therefore scruple to conclude, that the 

 generally predominant appetite of animals is for flesh 

 and other solid food, and that this appetite is more or 

 less vehement, more or less moderate, according to the 

 particular conformation of each animal. For on taking 

 a full view of Nature, we find it not only in man, but 

 in quadruped animals, in fishes, and even in insects, 

 and in worms. 



THE WOLF. 



THE wolf is one of those animals whose appetite 

 for animal food is the most vehement, and whose mean.* 

 of satisfying this appetite are the most various. Na- 

 ture has furnished him with strength, with cunning, 

 with agility, with all those requisites, in a word, 



