OF INSTINCT. 



Bifliop Berkley, and allowed by Mr. Hume, to 

 have no exigence in nature, not even in the mind 

 f their inventor, and we are hence neceffitated to 

 look for fome other mark of diftin&ion. 



The ideas and actions of brutes, like thofe of 

 children, are almoft perpetually produced by their 

 prefent plcafures, or their prefent pains ; and, ex- 

 cept in the few inftances that have been mentioned 

 in this Section, they feldom bufy themfelves about 

 the means of procuring future blifs, or of avoiding 

 future mifery. 



Whilft the acquiring of languages, the making 

 of tools, and the labouring for money ; which are 

 all only the means of procuring pleafure : and the 

 praying to the Deity, as another means to procure 

 happinefs, are chara&eriftic of human nature. 



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