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him, he may be faid to be leally a fervant, ,who will do what his 

 mafter directs him to do, even in his abfence. For proof of this, 

 he tells us a (lory, which he hlmfelf witnefTed, of two Elephants, 

 who were employed by their mafters to demoliih a wall, which they 

 did, when their mafters were not prefent, with as much fkill and ad- 

 drefs as men could have done it, who had not the ufe of inftruments 

 of art. And to this he fays they were encouraged by their mafters 

 promifing them fome fruits and fplrits, fuch as are made in India t ; 

 for it feems the Elephants there have got a tafte and a liking for fpi- 

 ritous liquors. And he tells. another ftory of one, who having been 

 twice brought to a French hofpital, to have a wound he had received 

 drefled, came regularly of himfelf afterwards, without his keeper or 

 attendants. The Elephant has alfo the fame attachment to his keep- 

 er that a Dog has here to his mafter, and will do every thing for 

 him in his power ; fo that he may be faid to have human fentiments 

 of gratitude and frlendftiip, as well as a human underftanding. 



But, neverthelefs, according to the diftindion I have made be- 

 twixt Senfe and Intelled, it appears to me evident, that even tbe 

 Elephant is only a better kind of brute. 



For, in xhtfirfl place, I afk. Has the Elephant any conception of 

 thofe invifible, eternal, and unchangeable things, which, as I have 

 fhown, can only be apprehended by the Intelled? I do not believe it 

 ever was maintained that the Elephant, or any other brute, has the 

 idea of a Supreme Mind, though I hold that to be a neceflary confe- 

 quence of Intellect come to the leaft degree of perfedion. But I 

 afk, whether he has any perception of thofe internal forms which 

 conftitute the nature and eflence of all things here below, and pro- 

 duce the movements of all bodies, organized and unorganized ? Has 



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