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different are you from the beasts that perish that we will turn to the Book
from which alone we can know the truth, and there let us notice, first,
that when man was to be made, it is no longer, "And God said, Let there be:
and there was;" but instead, the wondrous words are written, "And God said,
Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.... So God created man in
His own image"; and again we read, "The Lord God formed man of the dust
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul."
We are now going to study some of the wonderful works of God in the
animal-world, and I hope to be able to tell you some interesting stories of
what creatures who have not language, and cannot reason in the way in which
we can, have been able to do by instinct and intelligence.
It is very pleasant to read the accounts given by other people of what they
have observed, but even better still to learn to use our own eyes. Try this
plan, and you will be surprised at the many curious and beautiful things
about the ways of animals which you can find out for yourself.
You remember, when we were talking about fishes and birds, we found that
they both belong to the great group of animals called Vertebrate, from
having a backbone made of many pieces beautifully fitted together.
We are now going to speak of the last class in that great group--the
Mammalia, so called because they feed their young, not as birds do, with
insects or grain, but with milk.
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