SECT. XVI. i. OF INSTINCT. i o i 



SECT. XVI. 



OF INSTINCT. 



HAUD EQUIDEM CREDO, QUIA S'T D1V1NITUS ILLIS 

 INGEN1UM, AUT RERUM FATO PRUDENTIA MAJOR. 



VIRG. GEORG. I, L. 415. 



I. Injlinflive aclions defined. Of connate pajfflons. II. Of the fen- 

 fations and motions of the foetus in the womb. III. Some animals 

 are more perfeclly formed than others before nativity. Qf learn- 

 ing to walk. IV. Of thefwaliowing, breathing, fucking, pecking) 

 and lapping of young animals. V. Of the fenfe of fmell, and its 

 ufes to animals. Why cats do not eat their kittens. VI. Of the 

 accuracy of fight in mankind, and their fenfe of beauty. Of the 

 fenfe of touch in elephants, monkies, beavers , men. VII. Of nat- 

 ural language. VIII. The origin of natural language ; I . the 

 language of fear ; 2. of grief ; 3 . of tender pleafure ; 4. offe* 

 rene pleafure ; $ of anger ; 6. of attention. IX. Artificial lan- 

 guage of turkies, hens, ducklings, wagtails, cuckoos, rabbits, dogs, 

 *nd nightingales. X. Of mufic ; of tooth- edge $ of a good ear ; 

 of architecture. XL Of acquired knowledge ; of foxes ', rooks, 

 fieldfares, lapwings, dogs, cats, horfes, crows, pelicans, the tiger, 

 and rattlefnake. XII. OJ birds of paffage, dormice, fnakcs, bats, 

 f wallows quails, ring-doves, the flare, chaffinch, hoopoe ', chatterer, 

 hawfinch, crofs-bill, rails and cranes. XilL Of bird's nefts ; of 

 the cuckoo ; of f wallow* s nefls ; of the taylor bird. XIV. Of the 

 old joldier ; of haddocks, cods, and dog-fifo ; of the remora ; of 

 crabs, herrings, and falmon. XV Offpiders, caterpillars, ants, 

 and the ichneumon. XVI. I. Of locujls, gnats ; 2. bees ; 3. 

 dormice, flies, worms, ants, and wafps. XVII. Of the faculty 

 that diftinguiJJjes man from the brutes. 



I. ALL thofe internal motions of animal bodies, which con- 

 tribute to digefl their aliment, produce their fecretions, repair 

 their injuries, or increafe their growth, are performed without 

 our attention or confcioufnefs. They exift as well in our fleep, 

 as in our waking hours, as well in the fcetus during the time 

 f geftation, as in the infant after nativity, and proceed with 

 aqual regularity in the vegetable as in the animal fyftem. Thefe 

 motions have been (hewn in a former part of this work to de- 

 pend on the irritations of peculiar fluids, and as they have never 

 been clafted amongft the inftindive aclions of animals, are pre- 

 cluded from our prefent difquifition. 



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