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becomes the enemy of those above him, and the ready 

 associate of evil men, in evil works. 



NOTE 20, p. 156. Those that are loricated and covered 

 with some kind of shell. The varied means by which a 

 provident and beneficent Creator has provided animals 

 with different means of defence ought not to be over- 

 looked. When we see even these invisible atoms as it 

 were provided with armour, to defend them probably 

 from the attack of animals of their own class, we feel 

 confident that he will riot neglect us. This distinction 

 of animals into loricated and naked may be traced 

 through most of their Classes; thus the Coleoptera stand 

 in contrast with most of the other Orders of insects; 

 the fishes and reptiles that are covered with scales with 

 those that are covered with skin. 1 In birds, however, this 

 distinction does not appear to obtain at all : in quadrupeds 

 the giant Megatherium, the Armadillo, the Chfamyphorus, 

 and the Manis, are distinguished from the other Mam- 

 malians by the armour that protects them, 



NOTE 21, p. 162. The first plants and the first animals 

 are scarcely more than animated molecules, and appear 

 analogues of each other; and those above them in each 

 kingdom represent jointed fibrils. A discovery may here 

 be noticed of one of the most scientific Botanists of the 

 present age, and whose keen eye and philosophic spirit 

 have penetrated into depths and mysteries before unex- 

 plored, belonging to the science of which he is so great an 

 ornament. In the investigation of some of these, he dis- 

 covered that not only vegetable, but even mineral mole- 



1 In some fishes the scales are invisible, so that they may be 

 almost reckoned naked. Vol. II. p. 306. 



