Chap. X. ANT TENT METAPHYSICS-. ^37 



much by the exertions 6f the Mind, beQaiife its chief- faoafee^ 

 are then dormant and only m capacity 'during their whole lives, 

 as in us during our infancy. But ^\\\ thole faculties are there ; 

 and it is thofe faculties rouled, and brought into adtinn, that 

 mike the difference of the Minds of men in the civilized ftate. 

 And, befides, I fay that one Man, even v^'hile he continues in the 

 natural ftate, will fhow more fpirit, courage, and fagacity, than 

 another, and therefore will be the leading animal in the herd. 



Nor is this theory unfupported by the analogy of other animals. 

 Nobody will deny, who .knows any thing of horfes, that the fpirit 

 of a horfe of blood is very different from that of a common horfe : 

 And, befides his fpirit,' he has a gentlenefs of nature and a kindly 

 difpofition, which fhows itfelf very evidently when he is tamed and 

 broke to the faddle, and which dillingunhes him from a vulgar 

 horfe as much as his fuperior Ipirit and mettle. An Arabian 

 horfe of one of their noble families, as they call them, fome 

 of whofe genealogies they pretend to have kept for 2000 years * 

 "will, when his rider is difmounted in battle, inltead of running 

 away, ftand by him, and neigh for fomebody to come to his 

 alliftance ; and, when the horfe himfelf has loft fo much blood, 

 that he is no longer able to continue in the battle, he will 

 carry his rider out of it, and fet him down in fome fafe place f . 



And, 



* I can believe this to be true; far the Arabians are a very antient nation, wha 

 have had for many ages the ufe of letters ; and the genealogies of their horfes are 

 upon record, as our lands are in Scotland, and the fucceflion of heirs in-them. See 

 M- D'Arvieux, Memoires, Vol. iii p. 242. He was long in Arabia, and appears- 

 to have been particularly well acquainted with their horfes, of whom he has related 

 many curious particulars. 



t Of this we are informed by Niebuhr, the Danifli traveller in Arabia, Vol if. 

 p. 142. 



