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ith a detcrmmalion to asSl fo and fo, upon fuch and fucli occafions ; 

 and, as the occonoiny of the anhnal is much more artificial and 

 complicated than the oeconomy of either the vegetable or the unor- 

 ^nlzed bodys fo the motions of the animal mud be much more va- 

 fiojasj-but.'all proceeding from thefame' caufe, namely, an original d-qn 

 termination of the mind, making part of its nature and effence, to 

 perform thofe various motions on different, occafions. Such an ori- 

 ginal determination would indeed, with refped to Body, be altoge- 

 ther intbnceiveable ; and, therefore, to fuppofe it to! be the effed of 

 an originaMmpulfe given to their bodies, is perfedlyabfurd, as abfurd 

 as Des Cartes's notion that they are mere machines. But IMind 

 is of a nature altogether different from Body, and is fufeeptible of 

 modiftcations in its original conftitution, of which Body is altogether 

 incapable. . 



With this philofophy of mine upon the fubjed of the Brute Na- 

 ture, I am perfuaded that not only thofe things I have mentioned 

 of the Elephant, but all the adions of the Brute, will, upon the 

 ilrideft examination, be found to correfpond. The governing 

 principle of the Intelledual Life is, as I have, fhown *, the fair and 

 the handjome ; nor, indeed, can any adion, proceeding frpm any 

 other motive, be faid to be the adion of an Intelligent Being, but 

 only of a mere animal. Now, there is not the leaft appearance, in 

 any pare of the Brute oeconomy that they have any idea at all of 

 what is beautiful : Particularly in the bufmefs of copulation, which 

 is an eflential part of their oeconomy, they give no preference to 

 one female before another ; nor has the female, when flie is in fea- 

 fon, any prediledion of one male rather than another. And, in ge- 

 neral, in their whole oeconomy, their habitations, their eating, 

 drinking, evacuations and paftimes, they fhow not the leaft regard 

 to what is beautiful, graceful, or becoming. 



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