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in scenes of danger, to feign death. This is chiefly display- 
ed in various insects, and may readily be perceived in the com- 
mon dorbeetle, (Scarabaeus stercorarius, Lin.) This insect 
when seized, will stretch out its legs, rendering themstiff, and 
will remain motionless, until the danger seems to be over. 
In this state the limbs may be broken, without any action 
being excited in the animal. 
III. Arrections. 
The immediate object of the two preceding classes of our 
active powers, is to secure to the individual the comfortable 
continuance of existence. In the case of the instincts which 
are termed Affections, the object is to communicate pleasure 
or pain to others. Those of the first class centre in our- 
selves; the last have a reference to others, binding us ina 
variety of ways, to encrease their enjoyments or to repress 
their faults. They have been divided, according to their 
object, into Benevolent and Malevolent affections. 
Benevolent Affections. 
1. Parental Affection—We have placed this instinct 
first in order, because it is the most powerful in its im- 
pulses, secures for us the greatest quantity of enjoyment, 
prompts to the execution of the most complicated move- 
ments, and is essentially necessary to the continuation of 
life. This affection displays its energies, 
a. In each species providing a suitable place for the 
birth of its offspring.—This end is accomplished with the 
same degree of certainty in those animals which produce 
their young at first in the form of eggs, as in those which 
bring them forth alive. Among the animals of the former 
class, denominated oviparous, we witness fishes approach 
the shore to deposit their spawn in the crevices of the rocks, 
on the leaves of sea-weeds, or in the sand; but in all these 
