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Phys. — I agree with you, that if instinct 

 be supposed the result of organization, and 

 that the first animal types were so created as 

 to transmit their instincts invariably, genera- 

 tion after generation, it does offer a most tri- 

 umphant and incontrovertible argument for 

 the existence of an all-powerful intelligent 

 Cause. — Even in the instance which led to 

 this conversation, the instinct which carries 

 salmon from the sea to the sources of rivers, 

 it is only lately philosophers have discovered, 

 that the impregnated eggs cannot produce 

 young fishes independent of the influence of 

 air; and thus an animal goes many hundred 

 miles under the direction of an instinct, the use 

 of which human reason has at length developed, 

 and man is supplied with an abundant food 

 by the result of a combination, in conse- 

 quence of which a species is preserved. 



PoiET. — I do not understand, Haleius, 

 your objections to the view I have adopted, 

 which is sanctioned by the authority of a 

 good ethic philosopher, Addison. Allowing 

 the omnipresence, and constant powder of 

 Deity, I do not see how you can avoid ad- 



