88 Dr. Johnjlones Account of the 



view of human nature may be the fafefl:, which 

 confiders it as formed for every thing that is 

 good and great, and fets no bounds to its 

 capacity and power; but looks on its piefent 

 attainments as trifling, and of no account. 



The comparative anatomy of brute animals 

 has (as obferved by our author) been the fource 

 of moft: ufeful difcoveries in the anatomy of the 

 human body ; but the comparative animal 

 ceconomy of mankind, and x)f other animals — 

 comparative views of their dates and manner 

 of life, have been little regarded. Inftinfl is 

 a principle common to us, and the whole animal 

 world : to animals, as far as it extends, it is an 

 infallible guide — In man, reafon is but a weak 

 principle, and an unfafe guide, when compared 

 to inflind. Of this, curious inftances are men- 

 tioned. In the bringing forth, and in the 

 nurfing of their young, the advantages of brute 

 inftinft over the cuftoms which have been taken 

 up by rational beings, are placed in a ftrong 

 lio-ht. Numbers of mothers, as wejl as infants, 

 die by the management of prepofterous' art in 

 child-bearing, and afterwards, by mothers omit- 

 ting the duty of nurfing — A natural duty and 

 obligation, which contributes no Icfs to the 

 fafety, health, and beauty of mothers, than it 

 does to preferve the lives and health of their 

 offspring. 



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