Excerpt from Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science, Vol. 2 of 2: Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in Schools The severity of the forest laws sufficiently marks the selfishness of his diversions, and the cruelty of his temper. The life of an animal was valued at a higher rate than that of a man and this uncontrolled and de structive ambition was extended to the fowls of the air ahd the beasts of the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.