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enabled to catch them off their guard. For him
simple strength would not be sufficient. So the
dog, who is intended to gain his livelihood by the
services which he renders to man, is provided with
a mental constitution which leads him to attach
himself to a human master, and to remain faithful
to him in every extremity ; while other animals,
taken from their native haunts and brought;
artificially into this relation, are with
difficulty retained, and on the first favorable
opportunity fly away into their native woods again.
DESIGNS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE IN RESPECT TO MAN.
Upon a principle somewhat similar to this the
different races of men seem to be endowed with
different qualities, each being adapted, both in
physical and intellectual constitution, to the place
it has to occupy in the history of the species.
For some reason or other which we cannot fully
understand, Divine Providence has not seen fit to
bring the family of man at once into the full
possession of all the attainments and enjoyments of
which the species is capable, or to the high social
state for which their nature fits them. On the
contrary, the system which has been adopted for
the human race, unlike that seen in operation in
respect to any race of animals not connected with
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