894 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book IV. 



CHAP. vr. 



Of Inftindl, and the Nature of it — different from every other Power ^ 

 Mind hitherto mentioned. — ft isfhoivn chief y in the Generation and 

 the Education of theYowng. — Shoivn in Incubation — in the Flights 

 of Birds o/'Paflage. — In^mOifronger in the Natural State of the 

 Animal, but ivond^rful Examples of it even in the Tame State. — 

 This Inftinft of Animals, fuperior to Human Intelligence. — What 

 Inftind Man bad in his Natural State. — Not fo much neceffary to 

 him as to other Animals in that State. — His prefent State is direBed 

 by Intelligence, infeadofln^in^. — Tha.t not fufficient to make Men 

 happy, ivithout the Afftfiance of Superior Powers. — I'his the OrJ^ 

 gin of Religion. 



THAT Power of Mind, by which It operates fo wonder- 

 fully when its connexion with the Body is loofened either 

 fey Sleep or Difeafe^ and which I have endeavoured to explain 

 and account for in the preceding Chapter, is common, in fome 

 degree, to us and to the Brute. But the Power I am now to men- 

 tion is peculiar to the Brute, and fhows, more, I think, than any thing 

 elfe, how impoffible it is to account for the operations even of the A- 

 nimal Mind by Matter and Mechanifm, and manifefts, at the fametime, 

 the wifdom and goodnefe of Providence in providing fo wonderfully 

 for the prefervation of the Animal race, which alone is capable of hap- 

 pinefs. The power, I mean, is denoted by a name well known, In- 

 fintl : But the thing itfelf is little underftood ; for, I believe, very 

 few know that it is a power quite diftin(!l: from Senfation, Imagina- 

 tion, Memory, or even Reafon, which are generally believed to be 

 the only faculties belonging either to the Animal or Intelledual Na- 

 ture : Neither* is it acquired by imitation or inftrudion. 



It is employed, both for the prefervation of the individual and 

 the contimiation of the race ; but, as the latter is more particular- 



