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use of tools, of fire, or of its fellow-creatures brutes, or possesses property — that no animal is self-conscious or comprehends itself, or has the power of abstraction & possesses general ideas — that man alone has the feeling of gratitude & of mystery —that he alone is liable to caprice —that he alone employs language, has the sense of beauty, believes in God & is endowed with the moral sense a conscience. I will hazard a few remarks on some of the more interesting & important of these points

(Archbishop Sumner has formerly maintained *(12) that man alone is capable of progressive improvement. Looking first to the individual animals every one who has had any experience in setting traps know that young animals are caught much more easily than the old; & in the wile state they are more easily approached. Even with respect to the old, it is impossible to catch in any one place to catch many individuals for the same species

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