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and birds , are discovered carefully preserved as mummies , with hieroglyphic inscriptions These hieroglyphics , representing various animals , were , by the Greeks who visited E gypt to learn the art of government , brought to their own country : and their artists profiting by them as models , rather rudely executed , the arts of painting and sculpture rose by imitation and study to the highest perfection . The Greek sculptors , in order to represent beauty in their Jupiter , gave him the forehead ancl the streaming mane of the lion ; and to express the strength of their Hercules , they gave him the short and powerful neck of the bull . Whilst thus the artist formed from the brute
creation his excellent figures , the philosopher enriched his language by the emitted sounds of the same . In proof of this , we find amongst the Arabs , but more particularl y amongst the Hebrews , letters and words borrowed hy imitation from the brute creation , such as Gimmel , from the camel ; Aleph , the ox ; Nun , the fish ; Thet , the serpent ; Resh , the head ; Am , the hand ; & c , & c . The Zodiac represents a series from the brute creation . The disciplina auguralis was chiefl y taken from the imitation of the ht and voices
flig of animals by the augurs . The neighing and whinnying of the horses , as we read in Justine , were considered by the 1 ersian augurs as omens , whereby to decide important events and difficult cases . The relation which at first existed between man and the brute creation , having produced many happy effects to the former , we can onl y lament that the great increase of both in numbers , should have been the almost of important alteration in therelative
necessary cause an condition of both man and beast . The want of the means of existence exciting the more ferocious animals to acts of violence , they began to devour the weaker ; and man , equally pressed by hunger , became the sorry imitator of ihe brutes , by the slaughter of his domesticated animals . The chase , also , here had its origin in the wants of man , to provide food ; but which , in the progress of time , when nature ' s cravings were duly satiated , he used as a savage resource for recreation ,
and as the means of pre-eminence in his work of wanton , and in many instances , of destruction , for his own personal safety . Thus , agriculture and domestic habits , and the peaceable enjoyment of the fruits of the earth , in the primitive state of man , gave way to the chase ; the spade was changed into the murderous arrow , to inflict , too often , unmerited death on many of those brute creatures , from whom man in his primitive state had copied such useful lessons for the improvement of his forlorn conditionThe
. roving state of some of those savage tribes is beautifull y delineated b y the Roman historian Tacitus , in his work De more Germanorum , " or on the manners of the ancient Germans , whom he describes as roving hunters , and as peculiarly fond of war ; probably arising from the use of the arrow in their almost impenetrable wilds and forests . He dates their nobility from their great sagacity in destroying the wild beasts which inhabited those dense and gloomy forests ancl states that the
; degrees of their nobility depended on the number of the horns and claws of the wild beasts they had destroyed , and which they hung about their persons . Of this sort of savage creation to eminence , many nobles of that nation pride themselves , even in the 19 th century of the Christian era , fully as much , and perhaps with a purer claim , with many of our great captains , whose titles have their beginning from the murderous field of battle , where thousands of their fellow-creatures were sacrificed at the shrine of human ambition . In this roving state of man , he was , however , not forsaken by the
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To The Editor.
and birds , are discovered carefully preserved as mummies , with hieroglyphic inscriptions These hieroglyphics , representing various animals , were , by the Greeks who visited E gypt to learn the art of government , brought to their own country : and their artists profiting by them as models , rather rudely executed , the arts of painting and sculpture rose by imitation and study to the highest perfection . The Greek sculptors , in order to represent beauty in their Jupiter , gave him the forehead ancl the streaming mane of the lion ; and to express the strength of their Hercules , they gave him the short and powerful neck of the bull . Whilst thus the artist formed from the brute
creation his excellent figures , the philosopher enriched his language by the emitted sounds of the same . In proof of this , we find amongst the Arabs , but more particularl y amongst the Hebrews , letters and words borrowed hy imitation from the brute creation , such as Gimmel , from the camel ; Aleph , the ox ; Nun , the fish ; Thet , the serpent ; Resh , the head ; Am , the hand ; & c , & c . The Zodiac represents a series from the brute creation . The disciplina auguralis was chiefl y taken from the imitation of the ht and voices
flig of animals by the augurs . The neighing and whinnying of the horses , as we read in Justine , were considered by the 1 ersian augurs as omens , whereby to decide important events and difficult cases . The relation which at first existed between man and the brute creation , having produced many happy effects to the former , we can onl y lament that the great increase of both in numbers , should have been the almost of important alteration in therelative
necessary cause an condition of both man and beast . The want of the means of existence exciting the more ferocious animals to acts of violence , they began to devour the weaker ; and man , equally pressed by hunger , became the sorry imitator of ihe brutes , by the slaughter of his domesticated animals . The chase , also , here had its origin in the wants of man , to provide food ; but which , in the progress of time , when nature ' s cravings were duly satiated , he used as a savage resource for recreation ,
and as the means of pre-eminence in his work of wanton , and in many instances , of destruction , for his own personal safety . Thus , agriculture and domestic habits , and the peaceable enjoyment of the fruits of the earth , in the primitive state of man , gave way to the chase ; the spade was changed into the murderous arrow , to inflict , too often , unmerited death on many of those brute creatures , from whom man in his primitive state had copied such useful lessons for the improvement of his forlorn conditionThe
. roving state of some of those savage tribes is beautifull y delineated b y the Roman historian Tacitus , in his work De more Germanorum , " or on the manners of the ancient Germans , whom he describes as roving hunters , and as peculiarly fond of war ; probably arising from the use of the arrow in their almost impenetrable wilds and forests . He dates their nobility from their great sagacity in destroying the wild beasts which inhabited those dense and gloomy forests ancl states that the
; degrees of their nobility depended on the number of the horns and claws of the wild beasts they had destroyed , and which they hung about their persons . Of this sort of savage creation to eminence , many nobles of that nation pride themselves , even in the 19 th century of the Christian era , fully as much , and perhaps with a purer claim , with many of our great captains , whose titles have their beginning from the murderous field of battle , where thousands of their fellow-creatures were sacrificed at the shrine of human ambition . In this roving state of man , he was , however , not forsaken by the