282 ON THE HUMAN FACULTIES, 



sentiments, which losing sight of all worldly con- 

 siderations, teach him to acknowledge a superior, 

 protecting power, to whom he owes obedience 

 and veneration, and to perform the duties which 

 such an acknowledgement necessarily inculcates. 



These combined circumstances mark out man 

 to be distinct from all other animals. For though 

 we may allow a limited portion of intellect to the 

 brute species, in which, independently of instinc- 

 tive impulse, some reflection, much sagacity, and 

 in many instances, (in so far as the physical 

 necessities of the animal are concerned) great 

 ingentfity are to observed ; yet the total ab- 

 sence of all moral and religious feeling in such 

 animals, at once remove from them every ap- 

 proach to equality with man, even had their 

 physical structure without one deviation corres- 

 ponded with that of human frame. 



The brute species we know require only growth 

 to call into action all their respective attributes, 

 of which very many of them, are in full pos- 

 session, from the moment they are first brought 

 into existence. No education therefore is neces- 

 sary ; food and common protection when re- 

 quired, are all that is wanting, to answer their 

 limited ends. 



Man, on the contrary, is born under circum- 

 stances directly opposite. For his entrance into 

 life, is not only marked by the most utter help- 

 Jessness, and a total insensibility to all external 



