Cedar Keys 



and deadly diseases of certain parts of the earth 

 prove that the whole world was not made for 

 him. When an animal from a tropical climate 

 is taken to high latitudes, it may perish of cold, 

 and we say that such an animal was never in- 

 tended for so severe a climate. But when man 

 betakes himself to sickly parts of the tropics 

 and perishes, he cannot see that he was never 

 intended for such deadly climates. No, he will 

 rather accuse the first mother of the cause of 

 the difficulty, though she may never have seen 

 a fever district; or will consider it a providen- 

 tial chastisement for some self-invented form 

 of sin. 



Furthermore, all uneatable and uncivilizable 

 animals, and all plants which carry prickles, are 

 deplorable evils which, according to closet re- 

 searches of clergy, require the cleansing chem- 

 istry of universal planetary combustion. But 

 more than aught else mankind requires burn- 

 ing, as being in great part wicked, and if that 

 transmundane furnace can be so applied and 

 regulated as to smelt and purify us into con- 

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