. The bird . 4^:./% v:i>t:V^^ V r.^^- J. which we wage against nature. We destroy the very birdsthat protect our crops—our guardians, our honest labourers—which, following close upon the plough, seize the futurepest, which the heedless peasant disturbs only to replace inthe races, valuable and interesting, perish. Those lords of ocean,those wild and sagacious creatures which Nature has endowed withblood and milk—I speak of the cetacea—to what number are theyreduced! Many great quadrupeds have vanished from the animals of every kind, without utterly disappearing, haver
. The bird . 4^:./% v:i>t:V^^ V r.^^- J. which we wage against nature. We destroy the very birdsthat protect our crops—our guardians, our honest labourers—which, following close upon the plough, seize the futurepest, which the heedless peasant disturbs only to replace inthe races, valuable and interesting, perish. Those lords of ocean,those wild and sagacious creatures which Nature has endowed withblood and milk—I speak of the cetacea—to what number are theyreduced! Many great quadrupeds have vanished from the animals of every kind, without utterly disappearing, haverecoiled before man; brutalized (ensauvag^s) they fly, they lose theirnatural arts, and relapse into barbarism. The heron, whose pnidenceand address were remarked by Aristotle, is now, at least inEurope, a misanthropical, narrow-minded, half-foolish animal. Thebeaver, which, in America, in its peaceful solitudes, had becomea great architect and engineer, has grown discouraged ;* to-dayit has scarcely the heart to excavate a burrow i
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