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of this type. These are smaUness, particularly in the 

 head and mouth, feebleness, and want of offensive 

 protection, defect of organs of mastication, considerable 

 powers of swift movement, and (often) a parasitic mode 

 of living ; while of negative qualities, there are, besides, 

 indisposition to domestication, and an unsuitableness to 

 serve as human food. 



The rasorial type comprehends most of the animals 

 which become domesticated and useful to man, as first, 

 the fowls which give a name to the type, the ungulata, 

 and more particularly the ruminantia among quadrupeds, 

 and the dog among the ferse. Gentleness, familiarity 

 with man, and a peculiar approach to human intelli- 

 gence, are the leading mental characteristics of animals 

 of this type. Amongst external characters, we generally 

 find power of limbs and feet for locomotion on land (to 

 which the rasorial type is confined), abundant tail and 

 ornaments for the head, whether in the form of tufts, 

 crests, horns, or bony excrescences. In the animal king- 

 dom, the mollusca are the rasorial type, w^hich, however, 

 only shows itself there in their soft and sluggish 

 character, and their being very generally edible. In the 

 ptilota, or winged insects, the hymenopterous are the 

 rasorial type, and it is not therefore surprising to find 

 amongst them the ants and bees, "the most social, 

 intelligent, and in the latter case, most useful to man, of 

 all the annulose animals." 



As yet the speculations on representation are imperfect, 

 in consequence of the novelty of the doctrine, and the 

 defective state of our knowledge of animated nature. It 

 has, however, been so fully proved in the aves, and 

 traced so clearly in some other parts of the animal 

 kingdom, and as a general feature of that part of nature, 

 that hardly a doubt can exist of some such rule being 



