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Thofc of animals are ftill farther extended; 

 they are oppofed not only in forms and in geftures, 

 but in inftinds ; and with differences fo decidedly 

 marked, they love to affociate with each other, in 

 the fame places. It is this confonance of taftes 

 which diftinguifhes, as T have faid, beings which 

 are in contraft, from thofe which are contrary, or 

 enemies. Thus the bee and the butterfly extraâ: 

 the nedar of the fame flowers ; the fmgie-hoofed 

 horfe, fnufling up the wind, with his mane flowing 

 over his graceful neck, delights to amble about 

 airily over the fame meadows on which the pon- 

 derous bull imprefles his cloven foot; the dull 

 and fleady afs takes pleafure in fcrambling over 

 the rocks where the nimble and capricious goat 

 friiks and bounds ; the cat and the dog live peace- 

 ably by the faoje fire-fide, unlefs where the ty- 

 ranny of Man has vitiated their difpofitions, by a 

 treatment calculated to excite hatreds and jeaiou- 

 fies between them. 



Finally, contrails exift: not only in the Works 

 of Nature in general, but in each individual in 

 particular, and conftitute, as well as confonances, 

 the organization of bodies. If you examine one 

 of thofe bodies, of w^iatever fpecies it may be, 

 you will remark in it forms abfolutely oppofite, 

 and, neverthelefs, confonant. It is thus that, in 



animals. 



