vi PR EVE A CE, 
to the Support of our Being, the Delight of our Senfes, or the agreeable Exercife of the rati- 
onal Faculty. If there are fome few poifonous Animals and Plants fatal to Man, thefe may. 
ferve to heighten the contrary Bleffings; fince we could have no Idea of Benefits, were we 
infenfible of their Contrartes ; and peeing God has given us Reafon, by which we are able to 
choofe the Good and avoid the Evil, we fi Sufer very little from the malignant Parts of the 
Creation. 
God hath given to brutal Animals a certain eh whereby to govern them/elves, 
which is called an Inftinét, it being an inward implanted Tendency to particular Aétions,., 
from which they cannot firay. This Infinét, or inward Force, appears to.be ftronger 
in Brutes thaninthe human Species, and fupplies to them the Defect of Reafou. Man bath. 
an Inftinét alfo, but much weaker than that in other Animals; but to make up that Want 
God hath given hima glimmering of that heavenly Light, called Reafon. Now as Man 
was defign'd Lord of this lower World, and the Poffefion ofevery Part thereof was given 
to him, the Inftin of Brutes would not have been fufficient, nor would Reafon itfelf 
have been enough without fome inward Appetites; for without Inflinct his Generation. 
would probably have foon been at an End; and wefbould have negletted the Support of 
our individual Bodies, bad we only Reafon, and not Hunger to tell us, that Eating Was . 
neceffary to Life. 
Reafon is our Director, when we change our Country from one extreme Elimate to: 
another: The Ruflian tho’ inclofed in clofe Houfes firmly fecur’d againft the Penetration 
of the cold Air, and inwardly heated with Stoves, when he travels into Perfia and 
India, is directed by the fame Reafan to fleep in the open Air, and on the Tops of Houfes, 
and to ufe Machines to agitate and bring frefh Air about him; and on the contrary the 
Ethiopian, tho’ his Lodging be in the open Plains and Deferts, and he without any 
Clothing, yet when be 1s brought to Europe, he zs glad to fereen himfelf in warm Houfes, 
and warm himfelf by Fires, and cover himfelf with thick Clothing. Reafon giveth 
Man this Pre-eminence over brute Beafls; by it be can make almoft all Parts of the 
World habitable to him by Arts and Inventions to fereen himfelf from the great Heats 
in fome Parts, and defend hinfelf from the piercing Colds in other Parts of the World. 
No brute Animal can thus indifferently inhabit any Part of the World, becaufe their 
innate 
