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always spoken seriously ? *), " can we doubt that those 

 animals whose organization resembles our own, feel the 

 same sensations as we do ? They must feel, for they have 

 senses, and they must feel more and more in proportion 

 as their senses are more active and more perfect." 

 Those whose organ of any sense is imperfect, have but 

 imperfect perception in respect of that sense ; and those 

 that are entirely without the organ want also all corre- 

 sponding sensation. " Movement is the necessary con- 

 sequence of acts of perception. I have already shown 

 that in whatever manner a living being is organized, if 

 it has perceptions at all, it cannot fail to show that it has 

 them by some kind of movement of its body. Hence 

 plants, though highly organized, have no feeling, any 

 more than have those animals which, like plants, manifest 

 no power of motion. Among animals there are those 

 which, like the sensitive plant, have but a certain power 

 of movement about their own parts, and which have no 

 power of locomotion ; such animals have as yet but little 

 perception. Those, again, which have power of loco- 

 motion, but which, like automata, do but a small number 

 of things, and always after the same fashion, can have 

 only small powers of perception, and these limited to a 

 small number of objects. But in the case of man, what 

 automata, indeed, have we not here! How much do 

 not education and the intercommunication of ideas 

 increase our powers and vivacity of perception. What 

 difference can we not see in this respect between civil- 

 ized and uncivilized r^ces, between the peasant girl, and 

 the woman of the world ? And in like manner among 



• 'Discours sur la Nature des Anlmaiix,' vol. iv. and p. 113 of this voL 



