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its birth; and in lactescent animals an additional pleasure is produced 

 by the new secretion of milk, as well as by its emission into the suck- 

 ing lips of the infant. This appears to be one of the great secrets of 

 Nature, one of those fine, almost invisible cords, which have bound 

 one animal to another. 



The females of lactiferous animals have thus a passion or inlet of 

 pleasure in their systems more than the males, from their power of 

 giving suck to their offspring; the want of the object of this passion, 

 either owing to the death of the progeny, or to the unnatural fashion 

 of their situation in life, not only deprives them of this innocent and 

 virtuous source of pleasure; but has occasioned diseases, which have 

 been fatal to many of them. 



