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VI. OF INSTINCT. Haud equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illis Ingenium, aut rerum fato prudentia major.--Virg. Georg. L. I. 415. I. _Instinctive actions defined. Of connate passions._ II. _Of the sensations and motions of the foetus in the womb._ III. _Some animals are more perfectly formed than others before nativity. Of learning to walk._ IV. _Of the swallowing, breathing, sucking, pecking, and lapping of young animals._ V. _Of the sense of smell, and its uses to animals. Why cats do not eat their kittens._ VI. _Of the accuracy of sight in mankind, and their sense of beauty. Of the sense of touch in elephants, monkies, beavers, men._ VII. _Of natural language._ VIII. _The origin of natural language;_ 1. _the language of fear;_ 2. _of grief;_ 3. _of tender pleasure;_ 4. _of serene pleasure;_ 5. _of anger;_ 6. _of attention._ IX. _Artificial language of turkies, hens, ducklings, wagtails, cuckoos, rabbits, dogs, and nightingales._ X. _Of music; of tooth-edge; of a good ear; of architecture._ XI. _Of acquired knowledge; of foxes, rooks, fieldfares, lapwings, dogs, cats, horses, crows, and pelicans._ XII. _Of birds of passage, dormice, snakes, bats, swallows, quails, ringdoves, stare, chaffinch, hoopoe, chatterer, hawfinch, crossbill, rails and cranes._ XIII. _Of birds nests; of the cuckoo; of swallows nests; of the taylor bird._ XIV. _Of the old soldier; of haddocks, cods, and dog fish; of the remora; of crabs, herrings, and salmon._ XV. _Of spiders, caterpillars, ants, and the ichneumon._ XVI. 1. _Of locusts, gnats;_ 2. _bees;_ 3. _dormice, flies, worms, ants, and wasps._ XVII. _Of the faculty that distinguishes man from the brutes._ I. All those internal motions of animal bodies, which contribute to digest their aliment, produce their secretions, repair their injuries, or increase their growth, are performed without our attention or consciousness. They exist as well in our sleep, as in our waking hours, as well in the foetus during the time of gestation, as in the infant after nativity, and proceed with equal regularity in the vegetable as in the animal system. These motions have been shewn in a former part of this work to depend on the irritations of peculiar fluids, and as they have never been classed amongst the instinctive actions of animals, are precluded from our present disquisition. But all those actions of
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