or NATURAL HISTORY. 167 



their movements, cannot life their organs with eafe or dexte- 

 rity, and often continue, during life, ignorant of the moil 

 common objects. 



From the above fac^s and reafoning, it feems to be ap- 

 parent, that inftiniSls are original qualities of mind ; that eve- 

 ry animal is poiTefTed of fome of thefe qualities j that the in- 

 telligence and refources of aminals are proportioned to the 

 number of infl:in<5ls with which their minds are endowed ; 

 that all animals are, in fome meafure, rational beings ; and 

 that the dignity and fuperiority of the human intelle(ft are 

 necefTary refult-:^, not of the conformation of our bodies, but 

 of the great variety of inftindls which Nature has been pleaf- 

 €d to confer on the fpecies, 



