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mal of an imperfedt intelle6l, in this ftate of trial and probation, can 

 poflibly be. 



With refpedl to the brute, as he has no intelledt, his chief enjoy- 

 ment muft be the pleafures of fenfe. But as he enjoys them in a 

 more natural way than we do, they have not that effedt upon his 

 health which they have upon ours. The rich among us provoke 

 their appetites to eat by high fauces and made dijhes: And even the 

 pooreft among us ufe one of the Irritamenta gulae^ I mean falt^ 

 which makes men both eat and drink more than they would other- 

 wife do ; for which reafon I think it is very properly not ufed by the 

 North American Indians, who afcribe to the ufe of it many difeafes 

 that we are liable to. 



As eating is one of the chief pleafures the brute enjoys, Nature 

 has fo ordered it, that with him it is a pleafure that lafts very 

 long ; for he confumes a great deal of time in the enjoyment of it. 

 The animals we ufe, fuch as horfes and oxen, may be faid to fpend 

 all their time in eating, dunking, and fleeping, except when we make 

 them work for us ; and thofe, who live in the natural ftate, and not 

 under our government, appear to do nothing but to eat, drink, and 

 ileep, except what time they may employ in begetting and rearing 

 their young. And, as I have elfewhere obferved*, befides the plea- 

 fures of fenfe, which the brutes enjoy, the herding animals among 

 them have likewife a pleafure in fociety, which is the natural confe- 

 quence of their being gregarious. 



But, though the brute have commonly more enjoyment of the 

 pleafures of fenfe than we have, he has not intelligence, which, if 

 rightly ufed, gives us pleafure much fuperior to any that the brute 

 can enjoy. And even the pleafures of fenfe, if properly condudted 



by 



* P. 30;. 



