GENERAL HISTORY 



O F 



ANIMALS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Analogies bctiveen Animals and Vegetables, 



AMONG tlie numbcrlefs objeds with which 

 the fuiface of this globe is covered and 

 peopled, animals hold the firft rank, both on ac- 

 count of the relation they bear to man, and of 

 their acknowledged fuperiority over vegetable 

 and inanimated matter. The fenfes, the figure, 

 and the motions of animals, beftow on them a 

 more extenfive connexion with furrounding ob- 

 jects than is poirefTed by vegetables. Ihe latter, 

 however, from their expanfion, their grovv^th, 

 and the variety of parts of which they are com- 

 pofed, are more intimately related to external 

 objects than minerals or flones, which are per- 

 fedly inert, and deprived of every vital or adlive 

 Vol, II. ^ principle. 



