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cious animals, formed for a life of hof- 

 tile rapacity, and who fubfift by car- 

 nage and deftruction, all, except Man, 

 from inftinct direct their hoftility to ob- 

 jects endowed with the means of refift- 

 ance or efcape - 9 while inferior animals, 

 efpecially Infects, who would otherwife 

 become the prey of every invader, de- 

 rive fecurity from their minutenefs. The 

 Tiger wantonly deftroys the objects of 

 its rapacity for the fake of deftruction ; 

 but Man, tho' he indifcriminately at- 

 tacks both the weak and ftrong, yet 

 kills only in proportion to his wants, 

 and even in defcruction ufes ceconomy ; 

 nay, in a ftate of civilization he toils 

 for, and feeds, the victims deftmed to 

 his future fuftenance. 



The Hog that plows not, nor obeys the call, 

 Lives on the labours of the Lord of all. 



Pope, 



This, however, happens only in a ftate 

 wl^ere cultivated reafon has inlpired a 

 D d concern 



