[87] Tom. v. p. 195.
[88] Tom. v. pp. 196, 197.
[89] This passage would seem to be the one which has suggested the following to the author of 'The Vestiges of Creation':—
"He [the Deity] has endowed the families which enjoy His bounty with an almost infinite fecundity, ... but the limitation of the results of this fecundity ... is accomplished in a befitting manner by His ordaining that certain other animals shall have endowments sure so to act as to bring the rest of animated beings to a proper balance" (p. 317, ed. 1853).
[90] Tom. vi. p. 252, 1756.
[91] 'Discours sur la Nature des Animaux,' vol. iv. and p. [113] of this vol.
[92] Tom. vii. p. 9, 1758.
[93] Tom. vii. p. 10, 1758.
[94] Tom. vii. p. 12, 1758.
[95] Tom. vii. p. 14, 1758