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PREFACE. 



mind, and "men of exceeding strickt lives and severity of 

 profession " have indulged in rural diversions, why need we 

 regard the severe reflections of the sensitive Monsieur Paschal, 

 or his more modern plagiarists ? why think that wisdom loves 

 not the courser's sport ? or that man is degraded before the 

 tribunal of sound reason by estimating aright the instinct of 

 any of the creatures around him ? or made sinful in the eyes 

 of his Creator by availing himself of the adapted powers of the 

 lowliest of the brute race, for tlie subjugation of sucli wild 

 animals as were originally designed by a bountiful Creator for 

 Cicero de Nat. the Sustenance and recreation of man ? " Canum vero tam 



Deor. L. ii. c. 



incredibilis ad investigandum sagacitas nai'ium, tanta alacritas 

 in venando, quid significat aliud nisi se ad hominum commo- 

 ditates esse generatos ? " 



The inference in regard to the chases and field sports gene- 

 rally is surely just, " that man, by co-operating with such 

 animals, employs both his and their faculties on the purposes 

 for which they were partially designed : tending thereby to 

 complete the bounteous scheme of Providence, the happiness 

 and well-being of all its creatures." 



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RIancliesler 

 Rlemoirs V. i. 



Jul. Caesar. Sca- 

 liger. Epidorpi- 

 dum L. IV. 



videtur 

 Natura parens hunc bomini dedisse ludum, 

 Sua obire manu retia, defigere varos, 

 Hos cum docuit: cum accipitrem redire jussum 

 Jucunda canes cum leporarios creabat : 

 Nunquum faciens frustra aliquid carensve fine. 



Somerville, 

 Cbace. 13. iv. 



The brute creation are man's properly, 

 Subservient to his will, and for him made. 

 As hurtful these he kills, as useful those 

 Preserves ; their sole and arbitrary king. 

 Should lie not kill, as erst the Samian sage 

 Taught unadvised, and Indian Brachiiians now 



