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as well as the brute, we have not inftinds, too, moving us to do 

 fuch and fuch things? And, I lay, we have; and fuch as appear in 

 our children before they have any jufe of intellect. For it is by that 

 inftind that a child applies to the breaft and fucks it for its nourifh- 

 ment. By the fame inftindl it is that a child walks upon all four; 

 and, I believe, it would be much better for our children, if we in- 

 dulged them, as fome liivage nations do, particularly the Charraibs"*, in 

 following that inftind longer. It is by the fame inftind, that, when 

 we are grown up to be men, we move our eye-lids to cover and pro- 

 ted our eyes, and our heads or bodies from any ftroke that is aim- 

 ed at them; and in general fly from, or fliun, any thing that can 

 hurt us, or defu'e any thing that is necefl^ary for the prefervation of 

 our animal life, fuch as food, for which we certainly have an ap- 

 petite, that is not prompted by intelled, but by nature, that is by 

 inflind. And there is an inilindive impulfe to do a thing of ftill 

 oreater confequence, to propagate our fpecies, to which we are not 

 only prompted by inftind, but direded in the manner in which we 

 are to do it. In fhort, all our adions, which do not proceed from 

 ic'i//, that is, from the determination of intelligence, may be faid to 

 proceed from inflind. Of that kind are the adions which I have 

 mentioned, of eating when we are hungry, and drinking when 

 we are thirfty, which are fometimes reftrained and moderated by our 

 intelligence, but not prompted. And further, I fay, that, as there 

 was once a time when we were mere animals, and had not a^ually 

 acquired that intelligence, of which, in our natural flate, we are 

 only capable^ we then did every thing by inftind, juft as the brute 

 does. And particularly we walked upon all four, as our infants at this 

 day do: And accordingly even grown men, fuch as Peter the Wild 

 Boy, and others in different parts of Europe, have been feen walking 

 in that way; and, as I have obferved elfewhere f, there are to be ittVL 

 two children at this day in Devonfhire, the one ten years old, as is 



fuppofed, 

 5 See vol. 3. p. 74. t Vol. 4. p. 21. 



