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general appearance and economy. Thus, for 

 instance, in the Mammalia, the character of the 

 orders is taken from the structure, number, and 

 position of the teeth. Now it happens, that a 

 few animals bear, in this respect, a resemblance 

 to mankind. They have four front or cutting- 

 teeth in each jaw, with a small canine on 

 each side of the other four. From this circum- 

 stance, Linnaeus has associated them all in one 

 common order, to which he has given the 

 name of primates from its embracing man, with 

 whom the Bat is ludicrously associated under 

 this dignified title. Man possesses characters 

 peculiar to himself, which should separate him 

 from every other living being on the globe. 

 Even to his physical structure, the Bat, one 

 of the lowest of the mammifera, makes but 

 a trivial approximation, and his mental endow- 

 ments place him at an illimitable distance from 

 all the rest of the animated creation. 



We have thus given a general outline of the 

 Linnsean system, that our readers, who have 

 not studied it, may have an opportunity of 

 comparing it with that of the Baron. To do 

 the same by the latter, would be superfluous, 

 and anything further that we have to say on 

 the subject, must be confined to a few general 

 observations. 



