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same scheme as those faculties and powers with 

 which man's moral and intellectual progress is 

 most connected ? 



4. Again : It will hardly be questioned that 

 the author of the material elements is also the 

 author of the structure of animals, which is 

 adapted to and provided for by the constitution 

 of the elements in such innumerable ways. But 

 the author of the bodily structure of animals must 

 also be the author of their instincts, for without 

 these the structure would not answer its purpose. 

 And these instincts frequently assume the cha- 

 racter of affections in a most remarkable manner. 

 The love of offspring, of home, of companions, 

 are often displayed by animals, in a way that 

 strikes the most indifferent observer ; and yet 

 these affections will hardly be denied to be a part 

 of the same scheme as the instincts by which 

 the same animals seek food and the gratifications 

 of sense. Who can doubt that the anxious and 

 devoted affection of the mother-bird for her young 

 after they are hatched, is a part of the same 

 system of Providence as the instinct by which 

 she is impelled to sit upon her eggs ? and this, of 

 the same by which her eggs are so organized 

 that incubation leads to the birth of the young- 

 animal ? Nor, again, can we imagine that while 

 the structure and affections of animals belong to 

 one system of things, the affections of man, in 

 many respects so similar to those of animals, and 



