iQO OF INSTINCT. SECT. XVI 6. i. 



f wallow it ; and are led not only each to his proper nouriftiment 

 by this organ of fenfe, but it alfo at a maturer age directs them 

 in the gratification of their appetite of love. Which may be 

 further underftood by confidering the fympathies of thefe parts 

 defcribed in Clafs IV. 2. i. 7. While the human animal is di- 

 re<fted to the object of his love by his fenfe of beauty, as men- 

 tioned in No. VI. of this Section. Thus Virgil Georg, III. 25. 



Nonne vides, ut tota tremor pertentat equorum 

 Corpora, fi tantum notas odor attulit auras ? 



Nonne canis nidum veneris nafutus odore 

 Quxrit, et erranti trahitur fublaiubere lingaua ? 

 Rd'puit at guftum cupidus, labiifque retracSlis 

 Elevat os, trepidanfque novis impellitur aeftris 

 Inferit et vivum felici vomere femen. 

 Quam tenui filo cascos adnecStit amores 

 Dofla Venus, vitaeque monet renovare favillam ! 



ANON, 



The following curious experiment is related by Galen. " On 

 diflefting a goat great with young, I found a briik embryon, and 

 having detached it from the matrix, and thatching it away be- 

 fore it (aw its dam, I brought it into a certain room, where 

 there were many veflels, fome filled with wine, others with oil, 

 fome with honey, others with milk, or fome other liquor ; and 

 in others were grains and fruits ; we firft obferved the young 

 animal get upon its feet, and walk ; then it (hook itfelf, and af- 

 terwards fcratched its fide with one of its feet j chen we faw it 

 fmelling to every one of thefe things, that were fet in the room ; 

 and when it had fmelt to them all, it drank up the milk." L. 

 6 de locis. cap. 6. 



Parturient quadrupeds, as cats, and bitches, and fows, are 

 led by their fenfe of fmell to eat the placenta as other common 

 food ; why then do they not devour their whole progeny, as is 

 reprefented in an ancient emblem of TIME ? This is laid fome- 

 times to happen in the unnatural date in which we confine 

 lows; and indeed nature would feem to have endangered her 

 offspring in this nice circumflance ! but at this time the ilimu- 

 lus of the milk in the tumid teats of the mother excites her to 

 look out for, and to defire fome unknown circumftance to re- 

 lieve her. At the fame time the fmell of the milk attracts the 

 exertions of the young animals towards its fource, and thus the 

 delighted mother diicovers a new appetite, as mentioned in 

 Seci. XIV. 8. and her little progeny are led to receive and to 

 communicate pleafurc by this moil beautiful contrivance. 



VI. But though the human fpecies in fome of their fenfa- 

 : ions are much inferiour to other animals, yet the accuracy of the 



fenfe 



