SCIENTIFIC 

 ILLUSTRATIONS AND SYMBOLS. 



Abjectness Caused by Dependency. 



A CONDITION of long dependence upon the help of others will 

 always reduce men to a state more or less abject. This effect 

 of such dependence is also very obvious in the case of some 

 animals, and notably in that of the sheep. With no one quality 

 now to fit it for self-preservation, the sheep makes vain attempts 

 at all. Without swiftness it endeavours to fly ; and without 

 strength sometimes offers to oppose. But these feeble attempts 

 rather incite than repress the insults of every enemy ; and the 

 dog follows the flock with greater delight upon seeing them fly, 

 and attacks them with more fierceness upon their unsupported 

 attempts at resistance. Indeed, they run together in flocks 

 rather with the hopes of losing their single danger in the crowd, 

 than of uniting to repress the attack by numbers. The sheep, 

 therefore, were it exposed in its present state to struggle with its 

 natural enemies of the forest, would soon be extirpated. Loaded 

 with a heavy fleece, deprived of the defence of its horns, and 

 rendered heavy, slow, and feeble, it can have no other safety 

 than what it finds from man. Its long state of dependency has 

 made it abject. A. 



Extermination of Aborigines. 



Englishmen are not the only creatures who are successful 

 colonists. And the credit, if any, of exterminating aborigines 

 they are entitled to share with insects. Let us take the case of 



