TO THE USES OF MAN. 101 
of the human race. Even could it be proved 
that all existing species are serviceable to man, 
no such inference could be drawn with respect 
to those numerous extinct animals which Geology 
shows to have ceased to live, long before our 
race appeared upon the earth. It is surely more 
consistent with sound philosophy, and with all 
the information that is vouchsafed to us respect- 
ing the attributes of the Deity, to consider each 
animal as having been created first for its own 
sake, to receive its portion of that enjoyment 
which the Universal Parent is pleased to impart 
to each creature that has life ; and secondly, to 
bear its share in the maintenance of the general 
system of co-ordinate relations, whereby all 
families of living beings are reciprocally sub- 
servient to the use and benefit of one another. 
Under this head only can we include their rela- 
tions to man ; forming, as he does, but a small, 
although it be the most noble and exalted part, 
of that vast system of universal life, with which 
it hath pleased the Creator to animate the sur- 
face of the globe. 
*'More than three-fifths of the earth's surface," 
says Mr. Bake well, " are covered by the ocean ; 
and if from the remaining part we deduct the 
space occupied by polar ice and eternal snow, 
by sandy deserts, sterile mountains, marshes, 
rivers and lakes, the habitable portion will 
scarcely exceed one-fifth of the whole of the globe. 
