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CAUNIVOROIKS RACES 
evil, into an example of subserviency to uni' 
versal good. 
Under the existing system, not only is the 
aggregate amount of animal enjoyment much 
increased, by adding to the stock of life all the 
races vrhich are carnivorous, but these are also 
highly beneficial even to the herbivorous races, 
that are subject to their dominion. 
Besides the desirable relief of speedy death 
on the approach of debility or age, the cariU' 
vora confer a further benefit on the specie^ 
which form their prey, as they control theh 
excessive increase, by the destruction of man) 
individuals in youth and health. W^ithout tbi^ 
salutary check, each species would soon luul' 
tiply to an extent, exceeding in a fatal degi'^® 
their supply of food, and the whole class 
herbivora would ever be so nearly on the verg^ 
of starvation, that multitudes would daily 
consigned to lingering and painful death 
famine. All these evils are superseded by 
establishment of a controlling Power in 
carnivora; by their agency the numbers 
each species are maintained in due propoi’ti^^'^ 
to one another — the sick, the lame, the ag^’ 
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and the supernumeraries, are consignea 
speedy death ; and while each suffering in*^* 
vidual is soon relieved from pain, it contribuf^^ 
its enfeebled carcase to the support of * ' 
carnivorous benefactor, and leaves more 
