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ceivc a work of Art, not only to be formed and contrived by Intelli- 

 gence, but to iKive Its movements directed by Intelligence, and thefe 

 very various 3 'id complicated, fuch as thofe of the Brute are. A gen- 

 tleman told me, that he faw in Prefburgh In Hungary, a machine of 

 the human form, fo contrived, that It played at chefs, and at that 

 game beat another gentleman In company, wlio was a good player : 

 And this automate was fo ingenloufly contrived, that its movements 

 had all the appearance of originating from within, like thofe of the 

 Brute ; at leaft, the gentleman, who faw it, could not difcover any 

 thing from without, from which the movement came *. And wc 

 need only fuppofe that the movement did really come from within, 

 as It appeared to do, and then It would be a perfed Brute ; which 

 though human art cannot form, it Is not to be wondered that it 

 fhould be the work of Divine Wifdom. 



I have infifted the more upon this difference betwixt us and the 

 Brute, not only becaufe I do not find it explained In any mo- 

 dern book of philofophy, but becaufe I obferve an antient phi- 



lofopher 



* There is an account of this wonderful machine in the Eleventh Volume of the 

 Edinburgh Weekly Magazine for 1771, p. 196. contained in a letter from the Rev. 

 M. Louis Dutens, tranflated from the French, in which many curious particulars are 

 mentioned concerning this Automate, and this, among others, that, when the 

 author, who played a game with it, made a falfe movement, by giving the ^ueen 

 the move of a Knight^ the wooden gentleman was not to be impofed upon in that 

 way, but took up the Queen, and put her in the place flie had been removed from. 

 He adds, that the artill, whom he calls Kemple, withdraws at any diflance you pleafe 

 and lets the figure make four or five movements fuccefllvely, without approaching it. 

 He further fays, that the moving force^ in this Automate, is produced by the artift 

 winding up, from time to time, the fprings of the arm, which moves the men. But 

 this movitigforccj he fiiys, is quite diflin(fl from what he calls the guiding force : And 



fo far this machine refembles both Man and Brute. There were two Automates 



fliown in Edinburgh about nine or ten years ago, and, I fuppofe, in other towns of 

 Britain, who pla)'ed tunes upon the German flute in parts. 



