62 HABITS AND INSTINCTS OP ANIMALS. CHAP. III. 



among animals of a higher order, whose lives are, in 

 all probability, much longer ; but who feel, at their 

 death, an agony which is really quite unknown to the 

 " poor beetle that we tread upon." 



(78.) To intestinal worms and radiated Mollusca, 

 which, in their capacities, approach very nearly to 

 animalcules, we can ascribe no sense save that of touch, 

 as it is the only one which has yet manifested itself to 

 naturalists ; and thus does the harmonious scheme, ex- 

 hibited by the animal creation, terminate at the point 

 from which it commenced : the vast circle being formed 

 of various others, linked and adjusted with the nicest 

 skill, and the wisest and most beautiful arrangement. 



CHAP. III. 



ON THE PASSIONS OF ANIMALS. 



(79-) THE diversity of dispositions observable among 

 the human species, and the variety of passions which 

 agitate the breast of man, have been subjects of curious 

 speculation, which long stimulated the inquiries and 

 employed the thoughts both of philosophers and mo- 

 ralists. But let us not suppose that these passions 

 are altogether confined to our own species. Very many 

 of them, on the contrary, are common to the generality 

 of animals ; and we find some among the brute creation 

 in a very high degree susceptible both of love and 

 hatred fear and tenderness gratitude and anger. 

 They do not, indeed, possess the same means of ex- 

 pressing their feelings j but though, perhaps, less va- 

 ried and eloquent than ours, they have still a language 

 of their own, entirely suited both to their nature and 

 necessities ; and no attentive observer can have watched 

 them, without having perceived the mutual recognition 



