i 4 2 OF INSTINCT. SECT. XVI. 17. i. 



Mr. Locke indeed published an opinion, that other animals 

 poflefled no abftraft or general ideas, and thought this circum- 

 ftance was the barrier between the brute and the human world. 

 But thefe abftra&ed ideas have been fince demonflrated by bifh- 

 op Berkeley, and allowed by Mr, Hume, to have no exiftence in 

 nature, not even in the mind of their inventor, and we are 

 hence neceflitated to look for fome other mark of diftinftion. 



The ideas and aftions of brutes, like thofe of children, are 

 almoft perpetually produced by their prefent pleafures, or their 

 prefent pains ; and, except in the few in (lances that have been 

 mentioned in this Section, they feldom bufy themfelves about 

 the means of procuring future blifs, or avoiding future mifery. 



Whilft the acquiring of languages, the making of tools, and 

 the labouring for money ; which are all only the means of pro- 

 curing pleafure ; and the praying to the Deity, as another means 

 to procure happinefs, are charadleriftic of human nature. 



SECT, 



