Excerpt from An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Vol. 3 of 4 In a comparative View with man, their formation feems much ruder and more imperfect and they are, in general found incapa ble of the docility even of quadrup'eds. Indeed, what great de gree of fagacity can be expee'ced in an1mals whofe eyes are almofl as large as their brain? However, though they fall below qua drupeds in the fcale of Nature, and are lefs imitative of human endowments; yet they hold the next rank, and far furpafs fiihes and infects, both in the firufiure of their bodies and in their faga city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.