Effects of Different Kinds of Food on the Lower Animals..... Organs connected with Digestion most readily influenced. Development most Regular when the Processes are Slow Effects of Fruit and Farinacea on Bulk and Weight............. Connexion between Animal Food and the Diffusible Stimulants Tempers and Dispositions of Carnivorous and Herbivorous Animals. 345 Effects of Feeding the Herbivora on Animal Food...... Effects of Vegetable Diet on Sir Walter Scott Processes of Decay and Renewal more rapid under an Animal Diet.. 360 Chyle and Blood from Vegetable Food more Pure.... Weight of Animal Food consumed by the Canadian Boatmen, &c... 387 Produce of Animal and Vegetable Food compared...... Number of Persons that may be supported on Each Diet exclusively. 391 Population that may be supported by the Land of Great Britain and INTRODUCTION. THE ultimate object of animal life being pleasure, the law of self-preservation, or the love of life, will remain in full force so long as enjoyment is not outweighed by painful sensations, or until the organs of sense become indifferent to their accustomed stimuli. Every creature, therefore, is so wisely constructed, and endowed with such instincts, as induce it to make choice of those means which are best calculated to maintain and preserve its existence were not this the case, animal life would soon terminate. But as individual life has a commencement, so also has it an end; and though the laws of nature should be at all times implicitly obeyed, and circumstances should be of the most favourable kind, yet there is a limit beyond which none can pass,-when vitality must yield to the universal range of chemical influence. Even man, the last and most complete result of Divine workmanship, is no exception to this general rule; nor can all his wisdom and intelligence reveal to him the means of escaping the sentence passed upon the father of our race :-" Dust B |