Beneficent Distribution of the Sense of Pain. 95 
them to take due care of themselves, and that no animal orn 
greater share of the sense of pain than is nec the preser-. 
vation of the class to so ahigh badeuss The roe often 2 waa 
be a great inconvenience tO ‘any quadmuped; but rabbits or rats 
may still procure it; eve the case before alluded 
to 0 of the yoy does fell guna it, as ban pe does not 
its food by | alone, nor isits foot the weapon 
of attack as with the reas: but if a fox, wild-eat, polecat, or 
‘sea, it is probable that a sense of tem is necessary 
them, and many other animals also, to see aaa to those 
the world which they are formed to inhabit. It ma‘ 
beeuseful ‘to a them to those parts and depths im the ea 
| e necessa for their young to arrive at erie 
n the observation of Sir Humphry Davy, and others nll 
Pam a with the habits of fish, it is very alle that the 
sense of pain in many of them is very trifling; and when we 
consider the ca de cod, and | many other fishes, the 
