$Go Method of preparing the Chinese Soy. 



« The babe," says the illustrious Dr. Darwin, " soofi 

 after it is born into this cold world, is applied to its mo- 

 ther's bosom ; its sense of perceiving warmth is first agreea- 

 bly affected 5 next its sense of smell is delighted with the 

 odour of her milk ; then its taste is gratified by the flavour 

 of it ; afterwards the appetites of hunger and thirst afford 

 pleasure by the possession of their object; and lastly, the 

 sense of touch is delighted by the softness and smoothness 

 of the milky fountain, the source of such a variety of hap- 

 piness." 



Unless smell directed, how should the calf immediately 

 raise itself up, and at once fix where its nourishment is 

 LvJged ? 



Is it not more reasonable to suppose instinct, enabling 

 to discriminate the difference of two brtasts, in the child, 

 th an under s t anding r 



Who taught it first how to suck ? 



For the child to remember the breast last sucked, is less 

 credible than to be led on by instinct. 



Analogy in matters of difficulty must be resorted to when 

 we cannot prove it otherwise. 



Surely what I have advanced is not deserving to be ranked 

 as •* absurd/* and iC contrary to fact ;" and whenever your 

 reviewer goes out of his way to attack me, (for it was only 

 casually mentioned, like the satellite of Venus, in a note,) 

 he is sure to stumble, and evince not mine, but his own 

 " insufficiency." 



I have the honour to remain, sir, 

 With respect and esteem, 



Your faithful obedient servant, 



Robert John Thornton. 



XLIII. Method of preparing the Chinese Soy, ly M. de 

 Grubbens : extracted from the Memoirs of the^ Aca- 

 demy of Sciences at Stockholm for 1 803, first Quarter y 

 by M. Lindeom, Captain of the Swedish Mines'*. 



JL he Transactions of the Swedish Academy for the year 

 1764 contain a description of the method of preparing soy, 

 by the late captain Ekeberg ; but as this description is in- 

 complete as well as incorrect, since the real Chinese soy 

 will not be obtained by following it, I am fully persuaded 



* From the Annates de Cb/'mie, No. 148. 



that 



