134 CARNIVOROUS RACES. 
waters are ever crowded with myriads of ani- 
mated beings, the pleasures of whose life are 
co-extensive with its duration ; and which, 
throughout the little day of existence that is 
allotted to them, fulfil with joy the functions 
for which they were created. Life to each indi- 
vidual is a scene of continued feasting, in a 
region of plenty ; and when unexpected death 
arrests its course, it repays with small interest 
the large debt, which it has contracted to the 
common fund of animal nutrition, from whence 
the materials of its body have been derived. 
Thus the great drama of universal life is perpe- 
tually sustained ; and though the individual 
actors undergo continual change, the same parts 
are ever filled by another and another genera- 
tion ; renewing the face of the earth, and the 
bosom of the deep, with endless successions of 
life and happiness. 
