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Goat to form colonies around him for an abundant supply 

 of nutriment and clothing, — nor with having modified, sub- 

 dued, and softened, the carnivorous nature of the Dog, and 

 transformed him into a guardian, a guide, a companion 

 and a friend, an active and intelligent agent of his com- 

 mands, whose fidelity no bribery can corrupt, and whose 

 attachment can neither be shaken by chastisement nor 

 ingratitude. 



Repeated success only inflamed the ambition of man, and 

 spurred him forward in pursuit of new accessions. Having 

 subjugated the most useful species, and satisfied his most 

 pressing wants, still desirous of beholding the most perfect 

 abundance around him, he proceeded to lay other tribes of 

 the animal kingdom under contribution. He drew the 

 formidable Boar from his native forests, and by care and 

 by attention to the quantity and quality of its nutriment, 

 has rendered its flesh one of the most common and most 

 savoury articles of diet. 



Let us pause a moment to contemplate these conquests 

 over the brute creation.— Unlike the conquests over our 

 fellows, achieved by violence and cemented by blood, con- 

 quests which argue nothing but perverseness and degene- 

 racy, these peaceable victories most evidently demonstrate 

 the natural superiority of man, the strength of his judg- 

 ment, and the fertility of his imagination. If in his phy- 

 sical conformation he approaches to the animal tribes, how 

 is he not raised above them by his mental power ! By the 

 power which at pleasure can change their nature, can tame 

 the wild and subdue the obstinate, and make his will their 

 law ! The strongest and most intelligent species of the brute 

 could never yet achieve the subservience of another; force 

 is nothing. The majority of species thus appropriated by 

 us possess the greatest physical strength, but they must 

 yield to the power of mind ; to that untired activity, and 

 sleepless intelligence, which emanate from the Divinity 



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