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extend, I believe was not particularised. It might 

 only mean that man, by his superiority of mind, was 

 to subdue, so far as to prevent animals of a ferocious 

 kind doing him injury ; and let man, in his arro- 

 gance and self-sufficiency, keep in mind that if on 

 his formation his Creator blessed him, he also 

 blessed the fowls and the beasts, after he had made 

 them. He said he had made roots, and other vege- 

 table matter, for the food of man ; he also said he 

 had made herbage and other provender for all 

 other living things, thus shewing their wants and 

 comforts were his care. Shall man then dare to 

 hold, or presume to think, their wants and comforts 

 beneath his notice ? let him, with all his real and 

 self-imagined superiority, call to mind, then, when 

 he ill uses the less-gifted denizen of the world, he is 

 abusing a creature that has been blessed, in common 

 with himself, by the same Omnipotence that created 

 and fashioned both. 



If man feels so perfectly satisfied that the whole 

 and sole purport of the formation of other animals 

 was that they might be useful to him, without their 



