6 INTRODUCTION. 
cannot compenfate for damage done by the former ; perhaps the wifeft 
anfwer would be, that every creature was formed for itfelf, and each © 
allowed to feize as great a quantity of happinefs from the univerfal flock, 
as was confiftent with the univerfal plan; thus each was formed to 
make the happinefs of each; the weak of the ftrong, and the ftrong 
of the weak, but ftill in proportion to every order, power of conqueit 
and enjoyment. Thus we fhall find, that though man may be reci- 
procally ufeful to other animals, yet in fome meafure they were formed 
for his ufe, becaufe he has been endowed with every power of rendering 
them fubfervient, and enjoying their fubmiflion. 
NATURAL 
