ON CONCORD

"So too ought we to approach the investigation of each animal, not foolishly embarrassed or hesitating: for in all things there is something natural and honest. For that it exists not by chance, but for the sake of some end, is found to be most especially true in the works of nature. Moreover, that End, for the sake of which each natural thing has been established and created, is like the good and the honest. And if someone thinks that the study of the other animals is vile and ignoble, he must necessarily judge himself in the same way. For one cannot, without much and grave disgust, consider of what things the human race is composed, such as blood, flesh, bones, veins, and other parts of this kind." These are the words of Aristotle. With these words, he commends in a wonderful way not only the anatomy and consideration of man, but also that of the humbler animals as well. Wherefore, the works of Aristotle, Gesner, and other most learned men