beneficial to the herbivorous. 133 
or the comfortable existence of the healthy 
SBi^ivors of its own species. 
Nature,” which is thus 
of t^ to the great family of the inhabitants 
Established with equal advantage 
thp°”^- ^ t'^'^ants of the sea. Of these also, 
e e IS 
otht.'’i of food to the 
1 division that is carnivorous. Here again 
see, that m the absence of carnivora the 
uncontrolled herbivora would multiply indefi- 
■1' e y, until the lack of food brought them also 
to the verge of starvation; and the sea won d 
of urer , “durance 
famine *"'i I'T'” wliile death by 
The appointment of death by the asencv of 
exLtome’ T ‘«™““i'tion of animal 
existence apimars therefore in its main results 
™ucl fr"rr‘“'’ it deducts 
uch from the aggregate amount of the nain 
1:;::;:^^^ " aiCt 
miserv ff r ‘ "^•"^tion, the 
Ungerhm ^‘^^dontal injuries, and 
restraint imposes such salutary 
that the increase of numbers, 
a due ^“PP y ®f maintains perpetually 
that! The result is, 
® ssurtace of the land and depths of the 
