And even if man, as the most minute examination of the remains of those devastations of nature seems, in Camper's judgement, to prove, was not caught up in such revolutions, yet his dependence upon the remaining forms of terrestrial life is such that, if a mechanism of nature whose power overrides these others is admitted, he must be regarded as included within its scope, although his intelligence, to a large extent at least, has been able to save him from its work of destruction.