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that its various orders aft from imitation. 

 which muft be voluntary, rather than from 

 tmpuJfe, which is re/iftlefs, the refulting mif- 

 chief of diforder and confufion amongft 

 thofe claffes had outweighed the aggre- 

 gate good of improvement; It is reafon- 

 lefs, will-lefs inftinct, limited but unde- 

 viating, which alone could have preferved, 

 as they were in the beginning, are now, 

 and ever fliall be, the numberlefs divrfions 

 and fubdivifions of all merely animal life. 

 As attraction is the planetary curb of the 

 folar fyftem, confining all orbs to their 

 proper fpheres, fo is inftincl: the re- 

 ftraint, by which brutes are withheld from 

 incroaching upon the allotted ranges and 

 privileges of their fellow-brutes ; from lof- 

 ing their diftincl natures in imitation, 

 blending and endlefs. If imitation were 

 the fource of brutal acquirements, whence 

 the undeviating famenefs of thofe acquire- 

 ments ? whence their never extended limit $ 



Wherefore, 



