ORDER 
CARNIVORA 
The race of animals, which has been already treated 
of, affords an abundant source of observation and 
reflection to the thinking mind ; to the moral phi- 
losopher, as well as to the physical observer of 
animated nature. We might say, indeed, if such 
a conclusion be ever venial when applied to the 
works of the Creator, that the monkeys in general 
form a disgusting picture. The higher species of 
them claim a corporeal relationship or connexion with 
us, which humiliates the pride of man to the dust ; 
while, at the same time, many of them exhibit, in 
the grossest manner, a variety of those unbounded 
vicious inclinations, which, when they disgrace a 
human being, are ever more or less concealed under 
the mask of hypocrisy, assuming the semblance of 
virtue. 
It has, however, been earnestly, though humbly, 
attempted here to point out the alleviating circum- 
stance (which seems indeed almost at once to dispel 
the uneasy reflection arising from the notion of 
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