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 trength or ize equal to the elephant, yet nature has not entirely deprived us of trength and magnitude. Thus in the ame manner, though other animals are inferior in intellect to man, yet we ought not to ay that they are entirely detitute of reaon, but rather that their intellect is duller and more tardy than ours."—Porphyr. de Abtin. Lib. 3.

"They ay that the animals derive their agacity from nature only.—And from whence then, ays Porphyrius, do men derive their reaon? From whence even does God himelf derive his widom, but from nature?" Ay,