. Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities . dcalls for an exertion of those reasoning faculties with whichthe Creator, for such purposes, aided by those helps he haspromised, has given to us. In accordance with this latterassumption, both divines and Naturalists concur in consi-dering Nature as a book of Emblems, where one thingrepresents another. That this theory, resting heretofore ongeneral belief, is
. Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities . dcalls for an exertion of those reasoning faculties with whichthe Creator, for such purposes, aided by those helps he haspromised, has given to us. In accordance with this latterassumption, both divines and Naturalists concur in consi-dering Nature as a book of Emblems, where one thingrepresents another. That this theory, resting heretofore ongeneral belief, is capable of mathematic definition, we haveelsewhere largely demonstrated, (North. Zool). And if, asregards one division of animated nature the theory is correctit follows that it will be equally manifested in all otherportions of the animal world, when they are sufficientlyinvestigated. Hence it is that remote resemblances betweenobjects, widely different in themselves, can be explained:hence the analogy which the Glires bears to the Hedgehogs,and to the ; and hence the resemblance betweenthis shell and the Porcupines ; an analogy the more singular,as it extends even to the black and white colour of the spines.
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