io6. , OF INSTINCT. Sect. XVI. 6. i, 



IVallow it ; and are led not only each to his proper nourifhmenfc 

 by thjs organ of fenfe, but it alfo at a maturer age directs them 

 in the gratification of their appetite of love. Which may be 

 further underftood by confidering the fympathies of thefe parts 

 defcribed in clafs IV. 2. 1.7. While the human animal is di- 

 rected to the object of his love by his fenfe of beauty, as men- 

 tioned in No. VI. of this Section. Thus Virgil Georg. III. 250. 



Nonne vides, ut tota tremor pertentat equorum 

 Corpora, fi tantura notas odor attulit auras? 



Nonne canis nidum veneris mfutus odore 

 Qusrit, et erranti trahitur fublambere lingua ? 

 Refpuit at guftum cupidus, labiifque retra&is 

 £levat os, trepidanfque r.ovis impellitur 2iftri3 

 Inferit et vivum felici vomere femen. — 

 Quam tenui filo cascos adnectit amores 

 Docla Venus, vitsEque monet renovare favillam ! 



An'on. 



The following curious experiment is related by Galen. « On 

 directing a goat great with young I found a brilk embryon, and 

 having detached it from the matrix, and fnatching it away be- 

 fore it faw its dam, I brought it into a certain room, where 

 there were many velTels, fome filled with wine, others with oil, 

 fome with honey, others with milk, or fome other liquor ; and 

 in others were grains and fruits ; we firfl obferved the young 

 animal get upon its feet, and walk ; then it fhook itfelf, and af- 

 terwa/ds fcratched its fide with one of its feet : then we faw it 

 fmelling to every one of thefe things, that were fet in the room ; 

 and when it had fmclt to them all, it drank up the milk." L. 

 6. de locis. cap. 6. 



Parturient quadrupeds, as cats, and bitches, and fows, arc 

 led by their fenfe of fmell to eat the placenta as other common 

 food •, why then do they not devour their whole progeny, as is 

 reprefented in an ancient emblem of Time ? This is laid fome- 

 times to happen in the unnatural ftate in which we confine 

 fows ; and indeed nature would feem to have endangered her 

 offspring in this nice circumftance ! But at this time the ftimu- 

 lus of the milk in the tumid teats of the mother excites her to 

 look out for, and to defire fome unknown circumftance to re- 

 lieve her. At the fame time the fmell of the milk attracts the 

 exertions of the young animals towards its fource, and thus the 

 delighted moiher difcovers a new appetite, as mentioned in 

 Sec"t. XIV. 8. and her little progeny are led to receive and to 

 communicate pleafure by this moll beautiful contrivance. 



VI. But though the human fpecies in fome of their fenfa- 

 tions are much inferior to other animals, yet the accuracy of the 



fenfe/ 



