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every vegetable and animal which had been conferred upon 

 him involved the legitimate use of them for food — " To you 

 it shall be for meat." " Shall be meat for you." 



9. But in as much as man is thus privileged as to the ex- 

 tent of the resources of food allotted to him, the actual extent 

 to which he is to avail himself of that privilege, in ordinary 

 circumstances, would appear to be indicated to him. 



1st. In his (greater) instinctive tendency to employ certain 

 vegetables and animals for his subsistence. 



2d. In his preference more particularly for those animals 

 and vegetables, which doubtless were created for his special 

 use as food — e.g., the ox and sheep, wheat and barley ; — and 

 the employment of which as food was probably one of those 

 direct Divine communications with which man has been 

 favoured. 



3d. In his rational consciousness, in virtue of which he is 

 enabled if he will, not only to obey the healthful impulses of 

 his higher instinct, but also to attain, through science, such 

 information regarding the laws of his corporeal constitution, 

 and the various modes of sustaining it, as will guide him to 

 the selection and preparation of food suitable for every district 

 of the earth, season of the year, and circumstances of society, 

 on which his lot may at any time be cast. 



10. The same principles by which we have been guided in 

 our examination of the mode in which man, in contrast with 

 the animal, is enabled to supply himself with food over his 

 extended geographical area, would guide us to corresponding 

 results in reference to the methods by which he provides for 

 lii- protection from influences detrimental to life, from the 

 detrimental effects of heat, cold, dryness, moisture, darkness, 

 unsuitable atmosphere* and other cosmical conditions. We 

 Bhould finds similar combination of original instinct, dired 

 Divine communication, and the application of applied science. 

 Wi! should find the instinctive resources for personal covering 



