174? SALMONIA. 



what reason cannot his religious duties, the 

 undying nature of his intellectual part, and 

 the relations of his conduct to eternal hap- 

 piness and misery. 



HAL. " Davus sum, non CEdipus." I will 

 not attempt to discuss this view of yours, 

 Poietes ; but I think I may say, that all the 

 instincts of animals seem to be connected with 

 pleasure ; and in man the feeling of love and 

 the gratifying the appetites, which approach 

 nearest to instincts, are likewise highly de- 

 lightful, and perhaps there is no more plea- 

 surable state of the human mind than when, 

 with intense belief, it looks forward to another 

 world and to a better state of existence, or is 

 absorbed in the adoration of the supreme and 

 eternal Intelligence. 



