"[T]he system of destruction amongst animals holds an express relation to the system of fecundity; that they are parts…"

"These properties of animals, wherever they are found, must, I think, be referred to design; because there is, in all …"

"But then this superfecundity, though of great occasional use and importance, exceeds the ordinary capacity of nature …"

"[T]he subject ... of animals devouring one another, forms the chief, if not the only instance, in the works of the De…"

"Now, according to the established order of Nature, (which we must suppose to prevail, or we cannot reason at all upon…"

"[E]lections to the supreme power having upon some occasions produced the most destructive contentions, many states wo…"

"Government, at first, was either patriarchal or military; that of a parent over his family, or of a commander over hi…"

"Some excuse seems necessary for the pain and loss which we occasion to brutes, by restraining them of their liberty, …"

"In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might…"

"The great revolution which has taken place in the Western World may probably conduce (and who knows but that it was d…"