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But ray opinion is, that the inflind of tlie brute is of a na- 

 ture altogether different from intelled ; and that, as I have elfe- 

 where faid *, it is notliing elfc but a determination of the mind of 

 the brute, which the wifdom and goodaefs of God has beftowed 

 upon it, to adt in a certain manner on certain occafions and in cer- 

 tain circumftances, without knowing any thing of the reafons for 

 which it afts, or having any thing like what we call ivill or free- 

 •will in man, which is intirely the refult of intellcdt. For, in the 

 firft place, the man who determines to aft, mufl: have an idea of the 

 adion that he is to perform : And, 2dly, He mufl have formed an 

 opinion that the action, if he performs it, will be produdlive of good 

 to him ; and when he has formed that opinion, then he -wiUs to 

 perform the adlion. Now to maintain that brutes form opinions 

 concerning what is ^00^ or ///, and ad in confcquence of thofe opi- 

 nions, is to deny that there is any diftindion betwixt man and 

 brute, and to hold that man is not the only animal of intelligence 

 upon this earth, nor is thereby diftinguifhed from all the other ani- 

 mals of the earth : And particularly it is his operation of •wUlin'r^ 

 which makes him fo different from other animals, and is fo effentlal 

 to his nature, that, as I have faid elfewhere, if God were to take 

 from him that faculty, it would be in effed to annihilate him as an 

 Intelligent animal ; for he would be no longer a man but a brute. 



And in this manner I think I have demonftratcd, that as the brute 

 does not form opinions of what is good or ///, as man docs, he is 

 not therefore guided by intelled as man is, but by what is called 

 inftind ; which direds him to do what is beft for him, but vrithout 

 his knowing for what end or purpofe he ads. 



As the brute has not intelligence, he wants alfo another things 



which,. 

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