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monly noted of Dogs, that running before their 

 Mafters, they will ilop at a Divarication of the 

 Way, 'till they fee which Hand their Mafters will 

 take ; and that when they have gotten a Prey, 

 which they fear their Mafters will take from them, 

 they will run away and hide ir, and afterwards 

 return to it. What Account can be given why a 

 Dog, being to leap upon a Table which he fees 

 tp be too high for him to reach at once, if a Stool, 

 or Chair, happens to ftand near it, doth firft 

 mount up that, and from thence the Table ? If 

 he was a Machine, or Piece of Clockwork, and 

 this Motion caused by the ftriking of a Spring, 

 there is no Reafon imaginable why the Spring 

 being fet on Work, fhould not carry the Ma- 

 chine in a right Line tov^^ard the Objedt that 

 put it in Motion, as well when the Table is 

 high as when it is low ; whereas I have often ob- 

 ferv'd the firft Leap the Creature hath taken up 

 the Stool, not to be diredly toward the Table, 

 but in a Line oblique, and much declining from 

 the Objed: that mov'd it, or that Part of the Ta- 

 ble on which it ftood. 



Many the like Adions there are, which I 

 fhall not fpend Time to relate. Should this be 

 true, that Beafts were Automata^ or Machines, 

 they could have no Senfe, or Perception of Plea- 

 fure, or Pain, and confequently no Cruelty could 

 be exercis'd towards them; which is contrary 

 to the doleful Significations they make when 

 beaten, or tormented, and contrary to the com- 

 mon Senfe of Mankind, all Men naturally pity- 

 ing them, as apprehending them to have fuch a 



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