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motion, for we hare not the least reason to doubt btit 

 the same impressions of external objects raise the same, 

 perceptions in them as in its. No question, they see, 

 and hear, and smell, and taste, and feel in the same- 



9. We cannot therefore deny, that there is some- 

 thing in brutes which perceives the impressions made , 

 by outward objects ; and that they perform a thousand 

 actions which can never be explained by mere mocha^ 

 nism, those in particular which spring from what we 

 call instinct, as the feeding and tending their young, 

 the building their nests and preparing their habitation, 

 upon or in the earth. 



It is true, some things in brutes as well as in men 

 may be mechanically accounted for, butothers cannot; 

 so that we are constrained to own there is in them also 

 some superior principle, of whatever kind it be, which 

 is endued with sense, perception, and various appe- 

 tites : for from their outward actions we may as easily 

 learn, as we could from those of a man born deaf and 

 dumb, that there are in this principle or soul two diffe- 

 rent faculties that of perceiving or knowing, an- 

 swerable to our understanding, and that of desiring 

 and shunning, answerable to our will. That this prin- 

 ciple is immaterial appears from this single considera- 

 tion, it has a power of self-motion, which no matter 

 can have, being wholly ar' 1 essentially passive. 



10. It is not my design to enumerate the several spe- 

 cies of beasts, but it may illustrate the wisdom of tho 

 great Creator to give some account ot'afew, several of 

 which are not so commonly known. 



The largest land animal in the world is an Elephant, 

 which seems rather to belong to the hog-kind than any 

 other ; they are found only in the south of Afric, and 

 in the East*Lndies ? and are generally of a dark colour. 

 Their eyes are like those of a hog : at tiie corners of 

 their mouth grow two large teeth, six or seven feet 



