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But things are fo connected together and the univerfe is Co pcr- 

 fe(5t a fyftem, that there is no gap or interval in it, things runnin-^' 

 into one another, Hke fhades of different colours. Even things the 

 moft different in their nature, are in this way connedled together : 

 Thus animals and vegetables run together, and make what is called 

 a zoophyte, of which we have an example, as I have obferved*, in 

 the coral, which is mixed of the animal and vegetable. And there 

 are two kinds of animals, which we fhould think fo diftinft and fo 

 different altogether from one another, that it could hardly be con- 

 ceived how they fliould be joined together ; I mean the fifh that 

 fwims and lives in the water, and the bird which files and lives in 

 the air or on the earth : And yet they are joined together in the 

 fiying-fiJJ:). In the fame manner intellect and inftinifl are joined to- 

 gether, as we have feen in man ; and in fome of the brute animals 

 they run together and are fo joined, that, though their intelled: be 

 far from being perfect, yet it is a great deal more than common in- 

 ftindt. Of this kind of animal is the elephant, who in every refpedt 

 is the firft of the brute-kind ; for in fize and ftrength of body he far 

 exceeds all the other animals on this earth, and alfo in the qualities 

 of the mind, and particularly in fagacity and what may be called 

 natural parts. Upon the fubjed of the elephant Mr Smellie has 

 faid a great deal, beginning with p. 441 ; and I think he has proved 

 him to be a moft extraordinary brute. In India he is very often 

 domefticated, and is truly a fervant to the family, performing the 

 moft laborious offices, and carrying the grcateft weights, not only by 

 land, but by water ; for he can fwim as well as walk. He appears 

 to have what may be called ideas of particular objedls, which, as 

 I have elfewhere faid, were the firft ideas that men formed : And 

 therefore he readily diftinguifhes one man from another, and any 

 particular piece of work, that he is enjoined to perform, from any 

 other : For, like any other fervant, he gets orders to perform fuch a 



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