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 classes him with those animals who feed on fruits and vegetables.

The means by which the existence of an animal is sustained, requires a designer in no greater degree than the existence itself of the animal. If it exists, there must be means to support its existence. In a world where omne mutatur nihil interit, no organized being can exist without a continual separation of that substance which is incessantly exhausted, nor can this separation take place otherwise than by the invariable laws which result from the relations of matter. We are incapacitated only by our ignorance from referring every phenomenon, however unusual, minute or complex, to the laws of motion and the properties of matter; and it is an egregiouskai phonô mignyontes; alla drakontas agrious kaleite kai pardaleis kai leontas, autoi de miaiphoneite eis ômotêta katalipontes ekeinois ouden. Ekeinois men gar ho phonos trophê, humin de opson estin.]

[Greek: Oti gar ouk estin anthrôpô kata physin to sarkophagein, prôton men apo tôn sômatôn dêloutai tês kataskeuês. Oudeni gar eoike to anthrôpou sôma tôn epi sarkophagia gegonotôn, ou grypotês cheilous, ouk oxytês, ou trachytês odontôn prosestin, ou koilias eutonia kai pneumatos thermotês, trepsai kai katergasasthai dynatê to baru kai kreôdes. All' autothen hê physis tê leiotêti tôn odontôn, kai tê smikrotêti tou stomatos, kai tê malakotêti tês glôssês, kai tê pros pepsin amblytêti tou pneumatos, exomnytai tên sarkophagian. Ei de legeis, pephykenai seauton epi toiautên edôdên, ho boulei phagein, prôtos autos apokteinon; all' autos, dia seautou, mê chrêsamenos kopidi, mêde tympanô tini mêde pelekei; alla, hôs lykoi kai arktoi, kai leontes autoi hôs esthiousi phoneuousin, anele dêgmati boun, ê sômati syn, ê arna ê lagôon diarrêxon, kai phage prospesôn eti zôntos hôs ekeina.]

[Greek: Plout. peri Sarkophag. Log. b.]

[The same passage is quoted in the Notes to Queen Mab (Vol. iii. p. 359-360).]]