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 Ay, ay they, but the reaon of brutes is tationary, they never improve, they never invent. This is not true. Individuals of the ame pecies of animals differ in degree of agacity in the ame manner as individuals among the human race. Their agacity depends alo, like that of the human race, upon their ituation. The otter, ays Abbe Raynal, in Europe a tupid and olietary animal, has made in America a greater progres in the arts of civil ociety, than the native tribes of Indians.

Pliny, peaking of elephants, ays, "Intellectus illis fermonis patrii, imperiorumque obedientia, officiorum quæ didicere memoria, amoris et gloriæ voluptas, imo vero (quæ etiam in homine rara) probitas,