118 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO m. 



Compares and measures by imagined lines 



Ellipses, circles, tangents, angles, sines; 



Repeats with nice libration, and decrees 



In what each differs, and in what agrees; 



With quick Volitions unfatigued selects 



Means for some end, and causes of effects; 



All human science worth the name imparts, 



And builds on Nature's base the works of Arts. 410 



" The Wasp, fine architect, surrounds his domes 

 With paper-foliage, and suspends his combs; 



called judgment; if we in vain endeavour to determine it, it is called 

 doubting. 



If we reexcite the ideas in which they differ, it is called distin- 

 guishing. If we reexcite those in which they correspond, it is called 

 comparing. 



The Wasp, fine architect, 1.411. Those animals which possess a 

 better sense of touch are, in general, more ingenious than others. 

 Those which have claviculse, or collar-bones, and thence use the 

 forefeet as hands, as the monkey, squirrel, rat, are more ingenious in 

 seizing their prey or escaping from danger. And- the ingenuity of 

 the elephant appears to arise from the sense of touch at the extremity 

 of his proboscis, which has a prominence on one side of its cavity 

 like a thumb to close against the other side of it, by which I have 

 seen him readily pick up a shilling which was thrown amongst the 

 straw he stood upon. Hence the excellence of the sense of touch in 



