" The Almighty Creator, when he clothed the world that he had made with 

 plants, and peopled it with animals, besides the manifestation of his 

 own glory, appears to have had two most important purposes in view ; 

 the one to provide a supply for the mutual wants of the various living 

 objects he had created, for the continuance of the species, and for the 

 maintenance of a due proportion, as to numbers, of each kind, so 

 that all might subserve to the good of the whole; and the other, that 

 by them he might instruct his creature man in such civil, physical, 

 moral, and spiritual truths, as were calculated to fit him for his station 

 in the visible world ; and gradually prepare him to become un in- 

 habitant of that invisible one for which he was destined." KIRBY. 



