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to those of certain familiar animals."* Behold, then, the 

 wonderful unity of the wliole system. The grades of 

 mind, like the forms of being, are mere stages of develop- 

 ment, in the humbler forms, but a few of the mental 

 faculties are traceable, just as we see in them but a few 

 of the lineaments of universal structure. In man the 

 system has arrived at its highest condition. The few 

 gleams of reason, then, which we see in the lower animals, 

 are precisely analogous to such a development of the fore- 

 arm as we find in the paddle of the whale. Causality, 

 comparison, and other of the nobler faculties, are in them 

 rudmiental. 



Bound up as we thus are by an identity in the character 

 of our mental organisation with the lower animals, we 

 are yet, it will be observed, strikingly distinguished from 

 them by this great advance in development. We have 

 faculties in full force and activity which the animals 

 either possess not at all, or in so low and obscure a form 

 as to be equivalent to non-existence. Now these parts 

 of mind are those which connect us with the things that 

 are not of this world. We have veneration, prompting 

 us to the worship of the Deity, which the animals lack. 

 We have hope, to carry us on in thought beyond the 

 bounds of time. We have reason, to enable us to inquire 

 into the character of the Great Father, and the relation 

 of us, his humble creatures, towards him. We have 

 conscientiousness and benevolence, by which we can in a 

 faint and luimble measure imitate, in our conduct, that 

 which he exemplifies in the whole of his wondrous doings. 



•" A pampered lap-dog, living where there is another of its own 

 species, will hide any nice morsel which it cannot eat, under a rug, 

 or in some other hy-place, designing to enjoy it afterwards. I have 

 seen children do the same thing. 



