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ble of improvement ; incapable of all that 

 are termed the artificial paffions. 



God, who made man accountable, and 

 earthly life his {late of trial, gave him the 

 nobler faculty of reafon, liable to err, 

 but, in countlefs degrees, more connected 

 with volition ; and, according to its differ- 

 ent degrees of native ftrength, almoft inter- 

 minably capable of improvement. 



InftincT: cannot be that lower degree of 

 reafon which empowers the animal to ob- 

 ferve, and, by will and choice, to imitate 

 the actions, and acquire the arts of his ipe- 

 cies ; iince, were it fo, imitation would not 

 be confined to his own particular genus, 

 but extend to the actions, the cuftoms, and 

 the arts of other animals ; as men obferve, 

 and emulate, the aftions, cuftoms, and 

 arts of the natives of other countries. 

 Thus, improvement would have advanced 

 amongft brutes, in proportion as it has ad- 

 vanced in mankind. That it has not ad- 

 G 4 vance4 



