A REGENERATED WORLD. 



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We have dwelt perhaps too long on the doings of these 

 Water-devils, and now dismiss them with the reconciling 

 thought, that the world will forsake in maturity every savage 

 propensity, natural and moral. The prophecies of Holy Writ 

 give abundant assurance that when wars and vices depart 

 from among mankind, the predatory system will also cease 

 within the animal kingdom. The " wolf shall dwell with the 

 lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid." And 

 that this will be accomplished, even to the letter, we do not 

 the less believe, because we cannot comprehend in what manner. 

 Then may regenerate man be permitted to bring a new life of 

 peacefulness into the worlds within worlds of animated nature. 

 Then may some drops of humanizing gentleness fall even into 

 that little world of waters over whose deeds of cruelty now 

 droops our favourite willow. 



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