Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Light of Nature Pursued, Vol. 3
Nature has given to each species of animals some distinguish ing power or quality for their preservation and entertainment. The lion lives by his courage the elephant by his strength: the swine by his sturdmess. The squirrel delights, in his agility the swallow in the strength and swiftness of. His wing.' The spider seeks his maintenance from his cunning: the bee from her indus try. The nation of ?ies and little fishes, artless and defenceless, exposed for a prey to all other creatures, subsist by their prolific ness, multiplying them in greater numbers than all other creatures can destroy. To man she has given understanding to supply the want of strength, robustness, agility, and sagacit of instinct, Wherein he falls short of his brother animals: an to make the qualities he finds in them subservient to his own uses. Therefore our understanding is the faculty it behaves us most sedulously to cultivate, because from that we may principally expect to receive a supply of our uses and enjoyments.
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