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acquired winking of the eyes or impediments of fpeech by imita-p 

 ting their companions without being confcious of it. 



5. Befides the three fpecies of imitations above defcribed there 

 may be fome afTociate motions, which may imitate each other in 

 the kind as well as in the quantity of their action ; but it is 

 difficult to diftinguifh the m from the aflbciations of motions; 

 treated of in Seftion XXXV. Where the aftions of other per- 

 fons are imitated there can be no doubt, or where we imitate a 

 preconceived idea by exertion of our locomotive mufcles, as 

 in painting a dragon ; all thefe imitations may aptly be referred 

 to the fources above defcribed of the propensity to activity, and 

 the facility of repetition ; at the fame time I do not affirm, that 

 all rhofe other apparent fenfitive and irritative imitations may 

 not be refolvable into aflbeiations of a peculiar kind, in which 

 certain diftant parts of fimilar irritability qr fenfibiHty, and 

 which have habitually afted together, may affec"l each other ex- 

 aftly with the fame kinds of motion ; as many parts are known 

 to fympathife in the quantity of their motions. And that there- 

 fore they may be ultimately refolvable into aflbciations of action 

 as defcribed in Sett. XXXV. 



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