SECT. XVI. 8. O F I N S T I N C T. i8< 



who generally addrefs them with a fmiling counte- 

 nance : and hence ibme nations are moie remark- 

 able for the gaiety, and others for the gravity of 

 their looks. 



5. Of Anger. 



The actions that conftitute the mode of fighting, 

 are the immediate language of anger in all animals ; 

 and a preparation for thefe actions is the natural lan- 

 guage of threatening. Hence the human creature 

 clenches his fift, and fternly furveys his adyerfary, 

 as if meditating where to make the attack ; the ram. 

 and the bull, draws himfelf fome (teps backwards, 

 and levels his horns ; and the horfe, as he molt fre- 

 quently fights by ftriking with his hinder feet, turns 

 his heels to his foe, and bends back his ears, to liften 

 oui the place of his adverfary, that the threatened 

 blow may not be ineffectual. 



6. Of Attention. 



The eye takes in at once but half our horizon, 

 and that only in the day, and our fmell informs us 

 of no very diftant objects, hence we confide princi- 

 pally in the organ of hearing to apprize us of clan- 

 ger : when we hear any the fmalleft found, that we 

 cannot immediately account for, our fears are 

 alarmed, we fufpend our fteps, hold every mufcle 

 (till, open our mouths a little, erect our ears, and 

 liften to gain further information : and this by habit 

 becomes the general language of attention to objects 

 of fight, as well as of hearing; and even to ihc IUG- 

 ceflive trains of our ideas. 



The natural language of violent pain, which i<s 

 expreiTed by writhing the body, grinning, and 

 fcreaming ; and that of tumultuous pleaiiire, ex- 

 preffed in loud laughter; belong to Section XXXIV. 

 on Difeafes from Volition. 



IX. If 



