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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OF WILD ANIMALS. IN the hiftory of man, and of domeftic animals, we have feen Nnture under reftraint, feldom perfect, often changed and deformed, and perpetually encompafled with fetters, or loaded with foreign ornaments. She is now to appear naked, and adorned with fimplicity alone; but her attractions will be heightened by native beauty, by the freedom of her demeanour, the fpright- linefs of her movements, and other marks ef true dignity and independence. We are to fee her traverfing the furface of the earth, like a fo- vereign, dividing her empire among the animals, afligning to each his proper element, climate, and fubfiftence. We fhall furvey her in the fo- refts, in the waters, and in the plains, dictating her fimple but immutable laws, impreffing upon every Ipecies indelible characters, difpenfing her bounty with equity, compenfating evil with good, giving to fqme ftrength and courage, accompanied with hunger and voracity ; to others gentlenefs, temperance, and agility, attended with reftlefinefs and timidity; and to all, liberty, uniform manners, and ardour in love, which is always eafily gratified, and always followed with a happy fecundity. Love and liberty are the moft ineftimable gifts which Nature has to beftow. Do thefe animals we call wild) becaufe they are not fubject to our caprice, require more to render them completely- happy ? But they alfo enjoy a perfed: equality ; they are neither the flaves nor thetyrants of each other. The individuai has no occafion, like man, to dread the reft of his fpecies. They have peace among themfelves, and war never approaches them, but from ftrangers,or from man. They have, therefore, great reafon to fly from the human race, to conceal themfelves from our x obfervation, to take up. their abode in folitudes remote from...
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