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to the laws of instinct which Nature origi- 

 nally bestowed upon them, and which must 

 for ever remain stationary. If the ingenuity 

 of man could even furnish any single animal 

 with a certain portion of reason, the educa- 

 tion of the individual would not benefit the 

 species, which would never advance beyond 

 the eternal limits to which Nature has con- 

 fined it. The human species alone profit by 

 the development of the faculties of each 

 individual. Discoveries are transmitted from 

 age to age ; and the genius of one illustrious 

 character enlightens regions and countries 

 the most remote from his own : a circum- 

 stance, which is alone sufficient to shew us 

 the vast superiority of man in the scale pf 

 created beings. In our next excursion, I 

 shall enter more fully into the examination 

 of the intellectual faculties of man, which 

 can only assist us in explaining the great 

 enigma of creation. 



As he ceased to speak, they had reach- 

 ed the village of Teddington ; and proceed- 



ing 



