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its way to the hive, where instinct once more impels 

 it in its various operations. So that when we ascribe 

 a certain degree of intellect to these animals, we do 

 not place them upon a par with man ; since all the 

 most wonderful parts of their economy, and those ma- 

 nipulations that exceed all our powers, we admit not 

 to be the contrivance of the animals themselves, but 

 the necessary results of faculties implanted in their 

 constitution at the first creation by their MAKER. I 

 may further repeat, that the mere fact of being en- 

 dowed with the external organs of sense, proves a cer- 

 tain degree of intellect in insects. For if in all their 

 actions they were directed merely by their instinct, they 

 might do as well without sight, hearing, smell, touch, &c. 

 but having these senses and their organs, it seems to 

 me a necessary consequence, that they must have a suf- 

 ficient degree of intellect, memory, and judgement, to 

 enable them advantageously to employ them. 



There is this difference between intellect in man, and 

 the rest of the animal creation. Their intellect teaches 

 them to follow the lead of their senses, and make such 

 use of the external world as their appetites or instincts 

 incline them to, and this is their wisdom ; while the in- 

 tellect of man, being associated with an immortal princi- 

 ple, and being in connexion with a world above that 

 which his senses reveal to him, can, by aid derived from 

 heaven, control those senses, and bring under his instinc- 

 tive appetites, so as to render them obedient to the TO fyg- 

 jouwjcoy, or governing power of his nature : AND THIS is 

 HIS WISDOM. 



I am, &c. 



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