NATURAL HISTORY. 107 



Is another part, that serves them at the same time to 

 touch bodies, which we see them turn and turn again 

 before tfiey take them between their teeth. 



It is therefore to the sense of feeling that we are 

 indebted for the power of usefully exercising all other 

 faculties. One "inn does not, perhaps, possess more 

 ingenuity or capacity than another; but because in 

 "his earliest infancy he made a greater, and a readier 

 use of this sense. As soon as children are indulged 

 with the liberty of their hands they presently bring 

 them into action, and are fond of touching whatever 

 is presented to them. They are seen to amuse them- 

 selves, and to take a pleasure in handling every thing 

 they are capable of grasping. They seem as if they 

 were endeavouring to find out the form of bodies, by 

 touching them on every side ; and for a considerable 

 time, they amuse themselves in this manner, or rather 

 they inform themselves of new objects. 



CHAP. VI. 



OF THE APPARENT VARIETIES I.V TMK HUMAN SPE- 

 CIES LAPLANDERS TARTARS CHINESE JA- 

 PANESE FCRMOSANS MOGULS PERSIANS 



ARABIANS CIRCASSIAN'S TURKS RUS- 

 SIANS N KG HOES HOTTENTOTS- AMERI- 

 CANS CAUSES OF THIS VARIETY. 



J. HERE are many causes which contribute to pro- 

 duce an apparent variety between the different na- 

 tions of the globe. Climate, food, manners and cus- 

 toms, produce not only a difference in sentiment, but 



oven in the external form of differer.t people. 



