THE 



HISTORY, HABITS, AND INSTINCTS 

 OF ANIMALS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Creation of Animals. 



IN no part of creation are the POWER, WISDOM, 

 and GOODNESS, of its beneficent and almighty 

 Author more signally conspicuous than in the 

 various animals that inhabit and enliven our 

 globe. The infinite diversity of their forms and 

 organs , the nice adaptation of these to their 

 several functions ; the beauty and elegance of a 

 large number of them ; the singularity of others ; 

 the variety of their motions ; their geographical 

 distribution ; but, above all, their preeminent 

 utility to mankind, in every state and stage of 

 life, render them objects of the deepest interest 

 both to rich and poor, high and low, wise and 

 unlearned, so that arguments in proof of these 

 primary attributes of the Godhead, drawn from 

 the habits, instincts, and other adjuncts of the 



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