36 TRAVELSIN 
The domeftic ftate Is a ftate of fervitudc, in 
which the individual, and even the fpecies, 
more or lefs degenerates. Its natural inftindt 
being thus altered, the animal is purpofely 
heated by a particular kind of food : it is fepa- 
rated from the females and males of its own 
fpecles, and is forced to produce monfters, 
which are only a deviation from nature. I 
call them a deviation, becaufe, as they are bar- 
ren, they thwart that law which (he has im- 
posed on all living beings, of producing others 
of the fame kind. In a favage ftate the Indi- 
¥idual, perfedly free, invariably follows thefe 
laws, copulates with thofe of its own fpecies^ 
and never with thofe of another. 
If in Europe we fee pheafant^ produce with 
a fpecies different from their own ; if in our 
aviaries the canary bird produces with the 
filkin*, and the linnet with the goldfinch ; it is 
only becaufe they are forced to do fo by being 
feparated from their own females, and put inta 
a cage with others of a different race j and even 
then it cannot beiaccomplifhed till thefe birds- 
* Frmgilla J^inus, This bird is called in Suflex the 
La ; ^ becaufe it appears about the time when the 
bairby i.<..v^^:::€? ripe, ■ T-^ " 
have 
