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nature, is the instinct of sympathy. The affections of the lower 
animals, even between individuals of the same species, are ob¬ 
servable only in a few instances; for, in general, they are indif¬ 
ferent to each others’joys or sufferings, and regardless of the 
treatment experienced by their companions. The attachment, 
indeed, of the mother to the offspring, as long as its wants and 
feebleness require her aid and protection, is as powerful in the 
lower animals as in the human subject; but its duration, in the 
former case, is confined, even in the most social tribes, to the 
period of helplessness ; and the animal instinct is not succeeded, 
as in man, by the continued intercourse of affection and kind 
offices, and those endearing relations of kindred which are the 
sources of the purest happiness of human life.” 
We must here take leave of our author for awhile, and at some 
other period will introduce him to our readers on a different sub¬ 
ject. In conformity with the original purpose of the work, he 
has throughout excluded from it all those particulars of the na¬ 
tural history of animals and plants, and all description of those 
structures of which the relation to final causes cannot be dis¬ 
tinctly traced, and admitted only such facts as afford manifest 
evidences of design. He has likewise confined himself to such 
subjects as are adapted to every class of readers; and, avoiding 
all unnecessary extension of the field of inquiry, has wholly 
abstained from entering into historical accounts of the progress 
of discovery, contenting himself with an exposition of the pre¬ 
sent state of the science. K. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Mr. H .—Ati abscess exists either in the vagina, or in the lower portion 
of the urethra; probably the former. Would not an injection of a diluted 
solution of the chloride of lime into the vagina, and continued daily for a 
fortnight or more, be likely to be serviceable ? 
A Member of the Veterinary Profession. —The medicine was received. 
It 4ias been tried—certainly in a very favourable case, for it was the very 
commencement of a sudden attack: the most fearful symptoms seem to be 
disappearing. 
A portion of it has been sent where our correspondent wished that it 
should find its way, and a promise was given that its efiicacy should be tested. 
Half-a-dozen Correspondents .—It is not the hour, but the time will come. 
Paul Pry shall appear in our next, and he may be sure that he “ don’t 
intrude.” 
Cases have been received from Messrs. W. C. Spooner, Sinclair, Cleland, 
and an anonymous correspondent; but our number was then made up. 
