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CHAP. XI. 



Of the Industry of Animals. 



-ITHERTO we have scarcely considered animals 

 in any other light than with respect to the organization, 

 and the immediate and general consequences or' it. We 

 will now contemplate their industry, which is still more 

 interesting to us. 



Some animals seem reducible to feeling only : others 

 have all our senses, and rise almost to understanding. 

 The distance from the polypus to the ape appears 

 enormous. 



Imagination and memory are observable in divers 

 species: imagination, in their dreams; memory, in the 

 recollection of such things as have atiected them. Places, 

 persons, animate and inanimate objects, are traced out 

 in their brain, and they act agreeably to these represen- 

 tations. 



The degree of knowledge in each species answers to 

 the place it occupies in the general plan. The sphere 

 of this knowledge extends to all cases which the animal 

 may naturally meet ; and if the animal happens to be 

 drawn from his natural circle, and nevertheless is not 

 entirely removed out of it, we may conclude that this 

 new situation has a relation to one of the cases to which/ 

 the sphere of his knowledge extends. 



