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fo that it becomes like duft, and is fpread by the 
wind over the ground. Were it not for this, 
the vegetables that lye under the dung, would 
be fo far from thriving, that all that fpot would 
be rendered barren. 
As the excrements of dogs is of fo filthy and 
feptic a nature, that no infptt will touch them, 
and therefore they cannot be difperfed by that 
means, care is taken that thefe animals fliould 
exonerate upon {tones, trunks of trees, or fome 
high place, that vegetables may not be hurt by 
them. 
Cats bury their dung. Nothing is fo mean, 
nothing fo little, in which the wonderfull order, 
and wife difpofition of nature does not fhine 
forth. 
§. 20 . 
Laftly, all thefe treafures of nature fo art- 
fully contrived, fo wonderfully propagated, fo 
providentially fupported throughout her three 
kingdoms, feem intended by the Creator for 
the fake of man. Every thing may be made 
fubfervient to his ufe, if not immediately, yet 
mediately, not fo to that of other animals. By 
the help of reafon man tames the fierceft ani- 
mals. 
