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Chapter XIII. 
Aggregate of Animal Enjoyment increased, and 
that of Pain diminished, by the existence of 
Carnivorous Races. 
Before we proceed to consider the evidences 
of design, discoverable in the structure of the 
extinct carnivorous races, which inhabited our 
planet during former periods of its history ; we 
may briefly examine the nature of that universal 
dispensation, whereby a system of perpetual de- 
struction, followed by continual renovation, has 
at all times tended to increase the aggregate of 
animal enjoyment, over the entire surface of the 
terraqueous globe. 
Some of the most important provisions which 
will be presented to us in the anatomy of these 
ancient animals, are found in the organs with 
which they were furnished for the purpose of 
capturing and killing their prey ; and as con- 
trivances exhibited in instruments formed ex- 
pressly for destruction, may at first sight, seem 
inconsistent with the dispensations of a crea- 
tion founded in benevolence, and tending to 
produce the greatest amount of enjoyment to 
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