82 ON THE HORSE IN GENERAL. 



for fome years afted as a volunteer, in carrying 

 the Calabrian courier and his mail acrofs a 

 river; demonftrating a very extraordinary 

 portion of fagacity. But as the work, in which 

 I read this, abounds in curious information, 

 and of a country and people little known to 

 us, I refer the reader to it ; namely, Aufrere's 

 Tour to Naples. 



The ancients, either unable to difcover the 

 whole truth, or unwilling to acknowledge it, 

 could not yet help conceding to the brute 

 creation, what was ftyled afenjitive foul. Thus 

 the Epicureans broached the notion of the 

 exiflence of two fouls, the rational, and the 

 merely animal, which they diftinguifh by the 

 terms animus and anima ; the former confined 

 to a local habitation in the breaft, the latter 

 diffufed throughout the whole body. The 

 rational, of courie, they fuppofed mull belong 

 exclufively to themfelves : 



Senfum a coelcfti demiffum traximus arce, 

 Cujus egent prona &; terrain i'peclantia. Mimdi 

 Principio indullit communis conditor illis 

 Tantum animas, nobis animum quoquc. 



Juv. 



Amongfl: the moderns, Des Cartes, Father Mal- 

 lebranche, and others, have inconfiderately, or 

 fuperfiitioufly, pronounced brutes only, to be 

 animated automata. Another French writer 

 (the Chevalier Ramfay, I believe) is willing, 



indeed, 



