SECT. XVI. 5. OF INSTINCT. i 55 



fpice, oil, and empyreuma, we do not hefitate 

 about eating whatever is fet before us, and neglect 

 to cultivate thefe fenfes : whereas other animals 

 try every morfel by the fmell, before they take 

 it into their mouths, and by the tafte before they 

 fwallow it : and are led not only each to his pro- 

 per nouriftiment by this organ of fenfe, but it aifo 

 at a maturer age directs them in the gratification 

 of their appetite of love. Which may be fur- 

 ther underftood by confidering the fympathies of 

 thefe parts defcribed in Clafs IV. 2. 1.7. While 

 the human animal is directed to the object of 

 his love by his fenfe of beauty, as mentioned in 

 No. VI. of this Section. Thus Virgil, Georg. III. 

 250. 



Nonne vides, uttota tremor pertentat equorum 

 Corpora, fi tantum notas odor attulit auras ? 

 Nonne canis nidum veneris nafntus odore 

 Qaeriut, et erranti trahitur fublambere lingua ? 

 Refpuit at guftum cupidus, labiifq retra&is 

 Elevat os, trepidanfque novis impellitur aeftria, 

 Jnferit et vivum felici vomere femen. 

 Quam tenui filo caecos adne&it amores 

 Doda Venus, vitaeque monet renovare favillam ! 



ANON. 



The following curious experiment is related by 

 Galen. " On directing a goat great with young 

 I found a brifk embryon, and having detached it 

 from the matrix, and fnatching it away before it 

 faw 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 j we firit obferved the young 



animal 



