feel no compunctious visitations about including their pretended lord and master, man, himself. In all these cases, the rule of right is alone established by possession of the art or strength to conquer. * Burns. ** Vide Eccles. iii., 19, 20,21. Man's dominion over the other animals, is a pure usurpation: and though he differs from them in the structure of his body, he is superior to them only in some qualities, which have been greatly improved by the recorded experience of his species, handed down to him through a course of some thousands of years; and from which springs that combination in society which renders him formidable to his "fellow worms." This is proved beyond contradiction by comparing him, as the educated and armed production of society, with what he is in the wild or natural state for in the latter condition, he is so far from being "superior," that he becomes the prey of animals much smaller than himself, which look upon him as destined by nature for their subsistence, and use him as food accordingly. These facts are so well borne out by experience, that they will be denied only by that false pride which theology instils to answer its own ends. * Man, like every other animal, is born without the quality called reason; and like them, must gain it as the fruit of experience, by which all acquire it to a certain degree; and in some of them it is much more perfect than it is in man; but his excessive pride and love of dominion, blinds him against this great truth. That which he is taught to call reason in himself, must, forsooth, be only instinct, when applied to the mental faculties of those he calls brutes. Here the difference is in distinction of terms:-- "Reason and instinct, how can ye divide? 'Tis the fool's folly, and the churchman's pride."