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and experience has not the fmalleft con¬ 
cern with them. 
If, however, experience is not the firft 
inftrudtor of animals, at lealt it generally 
contributes in the courfe of time to render 
them perfect; and man, the fancied lord 
of the creation, fiands in greater need of 
its aid, than any of the fubordinate animals. 
The empire of the mind is extended by 
experience and practice. By their affifl- 
ance it is that many animals attain to a 
management of their organs of motion, 
which at once aftonifhes and enchants us. 
Animals which are not endowed with 
reafon, or with a capacity for information 
equal to ours, when cherifhed and mo» 
delled by the elucation of man acquire 
talents of this kind, but ftill remain in¬ 
finitely below us in the fcale of being. 
The motions which depend upon the 
power of the mind, frequently takes place 
in oppofition to its efforts to reftrain them, 
, when 
