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(23) NATURAL AFFECTION.

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the creatures of God let man learn wiſdom, and apply himſelf to the inſtruction they give.

to the deſart, my ſon; obſerve the young ſtork in wilderneſs; let him ſpeak to thy heart. He on his wing his aged fire; he lodgeth him in, and ſupplieth him with food.

FFECTION is not merely confined to the rational part of creation, but is univerſal law of Nature; and, from the that follows, extends to a great degree the irrational creation alſo. Mr Bruce, deſcribing the manner of hunting the in Abyſſinia, mentions a ſingular  of affection in a young one:

"There now remained but two of thoſe that had been diſcovered,  were a ſhe one with a calf. The  having obſerved the place of her retreat  we haſtily followed.  She was very  found, and as ſoon lamed; but when  came to wound her with the darts, as  one did in their turn, to our very great, the young one, which had been  to eſcape unheeded and unpurſued,  out from the thicket, apparently in  anger, running upon the horſes and  with all the violence it was maſter of.