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is no doubt of a kind analogous to that which prefides in the vegetable, 

 but more excellent, by how much it has a greater kingdom to govern. 



As to the other part of the animal nature, and which, properly 

 fpeaking, is the anurah h is very different from the vegetable, and 

 come8 much nearer to intelled : For it has perception, appetites, and 

 ilejires, and what conftitutes pieajure and pain. And it comes thus 

 far dill nearer intelled, that it may be (aid to have an end in its pur- 

 fuits : For the brute, when he is hungry, propoles to eat, and of that 

 food which is natural to him; and, in like manner, when he is in /«/?, 

 his objedt is the jemale of his kind : But he has no end beyond the 

 immediate objedt of his appetite ; for he knows not that eating will 

 nourifli him, or that coition will propagax his kind. 



The perception of the animal is by certain organs, which we call 

 organs oijenje. By thefc he has a communication with external ob- 

 jeds, fuch as the vegetable has not : But of thefe external objects he 

 forms no ideas, does not recognize his own mind, nor is confcious of 

 any of its operation?. — But, of the difference betwixt the animal and 

 intelledlual mind, 1 have faid enough in a preceeding chapter *. 



From this accompt of the animal mind, it is evident that it 

 muft be much more pertedt than that ot the vegetable, becaufe 

 the oeconomy over which it prelides is much more various and 

 artificial ; for, as the animal has different appetites and delires, 

 thele muft be all lb adjufted together, as to contribute to the 

 end propofed by Nature, the prefervation of the individual, and 

 the CO tinuation of the kind. Each or them, iherefore, muft be 

 kept within its juft bounds ; and there muft be a balance of ttie af- 

 fedions and pafhons, in their mind, as well as in ours. The feihfh. 



paffions, 



' Chap. 10. lib. 2. p. 132, 



