367 PURPOSE AND GENERAL CONDITION OE THE ANIMATED CREATION. We have now to inquire how this view of the con stitution and origin of nature bears upon the condi tion of man upon the earth, and his relation to supra-mundane things. That enjoyment is the proper attendant of animal existence is pressed upon us by all that we see and all we experience. Everywhere we perceive in the lower creatures, in their ordinary condition, symptoms of enjoyment. Their whole being is a system of needs, the supplying of which is gratifi cation, and of faculties, the exercise of which is pleasurable. When we consult our own sensations, we find that, even in a sense of a healthy per formance of all the functions of the animal eco nomy, God has furnished us with an innocent and
