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RELATIONS OF ANIMALS 
With respect to the animal kingdom, 
acknowledge with gratitude, that among the 
higher classes, there is a certain number of 
living species, which are indispensable to the 
supply of human food and raiment, and to the 
aid of civilized man in his various labours and 
occupations ; and that these are endowed with 
dispositions and faculties which adapt them io 
a peculiar degree for domestication but their 
number bears an extremely small proportion to 
the total amount of existing species; and with 
regard to the lower classes of animals, there are 
but very few among their almost countless multi' 
tudes, that minister either to the w ants or luxuries 
Nevertheless, we may so far acknowledge all things made ft”' 
man as that his uses are regarded conjointly with those of other 
creatures, and that he has an interest in every thing reaching Ir'® 
notice, and contributing either to the support of his body, th« 
improvement or entertainment of his mind. The satellites thai 
turn the night of Jupiter into day, assist him in ascertaining the 
longitude, and measuring the velocity of light : the mighty suiL 
that like a giant holds the planets and comets in their orbits» 
enlightens him with its splendour, and cherishes him with hs 
warmth: the distant stars, whose attraction probably confine® 
other planets within their vortices, direct his course over the 
boundless sea, and the inhospitable desert.” — ^Tucker’s Light n* 
Nature, book iii. chap. ix. p. 9. 
See an excellent note on prospective provisions, to afford mn* 
terials for human arts, and having reference to the future discO' 
veries of human science, in Rev. W. D. Conybeare’s Inaugu*'®^ 
Address to Bristol College, 1831. 
* See Lyell’s Principles of Geology, 3rd edit. vol. ii. book 
c. 3. 
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