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creation, by the endowments of reason and a moral sense, 

 yet many of the inferior animals excel him in the perfection 

 of subordinate powers. In strength and swiftness, he is sur- 

 passed by many of the quadrupeds ; in powers of vision, the 

 eagle and other birds excel him ; in acuteness of hearing, 

 taste, and smell, a large number of animals are superior to 

 him. Man is indeed a stranger to those delicate percep- 

 tions, which teach the lower animals to seek the food which 

 is salutary, and avoid that which is injurious, and has to 

 depend upon a painful and hazardous experience for that 

 knowledge which the brutes possess by instinct. 



17. " But he has gifts of infinitely higher value. | In the 

 fidelity and tenacity with which impressions are retained in 

 his memory ; in the facility and strength with which they 

 are associated ; in grasp of comprehension, in strength of 

 reasoning, in capacity of progressive improvement) he leaves 

 all other animals at an immeasurable distance behind. Ho 

 alone enjoys in perfection the gift of utterance ; he alone is 

 able to clothe his thoughts in words ; in him alone do we 

 find implanted the desire of examining every department of 

 nature, and the power of extending his views beyond the 

 confines of this globe." 



18. " On him alone have the high privileges been bestow, 

 ed of recognising and adoring the Power, the Wisdom, and 

 the Goodness of the Author of the universe, from whom his 

 being has emanated, to whom he owes all the blessings which 

 attend it, and to whom he has been taught to look forward 

 to brighter skies, and to purer and more exalted conditions 

 of existence." 



19. Phrenology. The actual meaning of the term Phren- 

 ology, is '< a discourse about the mind," or, " the doctrine of 

 the mind.? It professes indeed to be a system of Mental 

 Philosophy, and as it is pretends to be founded in nature and 

 supported by facts, it certainly is not beneath the attention 

 of the candid inquirer after truth. 



