8 BIPEDS AND QUADRUPEDS. 



life, liberty, and enjoyment, being contemplated, I 

 would beg leave to ask him for what were hyenas, 

 crocodiles, alligators, rattle-snakes, vultures, or even 

 the beautiful zebra, made ? If these were in- 

 tended solely for our use, they strike me as rather an 

 anomalous class, as destined to servitude. If they 

 are so, then how limited is the power of mind 

 and arm in man, when he cannot even command the 

 services of the ass, for the zebra is no more. Let 

 man also remember and allow, that many animals, in 

 bodily attributes, and some in ingenuity, are very 

 much his superiors. It is true that the lion trapped 

 and caged, may prove the cunning and invention 

 of man, and man may from such circumstance vaunt 

 himself on his superiority ; he may say even the 

 Hyrcian tiger and Nubian lion were made for we ; 

 but let him meet either with only the natural powers 

 given to each for attack and defence, man would 

 soon find himself in a situation that might authorize 

 the denizen of the forest to feel that man was made 

 for him. 



No one, of course, doubts the superiority of man 



