and swallow solid seeds, or grains, is either taught by the felicitous
industry of its mother; or by many repeated attempts is enabled at length
to distinguish and to swallow this kind of nutriment.

And puppies, though they know how to suck like other animals from their
previous experience in swallowing, and in respiration; yet are they long in
acquiring the art of lapping with their tongues, which from the flaccidity
of their cheeks, and length of their mouths, is afterwards a more
convenient way for them to take in water.

V. The senses of smell and taste in many other animals greatly excel those
of mankind, for in civilized society, as our victuals are generally
prepared by others, and are adulterated with salt, spice, oil, and
empyreuma, we do not hesitate about eating whatever is set before us, and
neglect to cultivate these senses: whereas other animals try every morsel
by the smell, before they take it into their mouths, and by the taste
before they swallow it: and are led not only each to his proper nourishment
by this organ of sense, but it also at a maturer age directs them in the
gratification of their appetite of love. Which may be further understood by
considering the sympathies of these parts described in Class IV. 2. 1. 7.
While the human animal is directed to the object of his love by his sense
of beauty, as mentioned in No. VI. of this Section. Thus Virgil. Georg.
III. 250.

Nonne vides, ut tota tremor pertentat equorum
Corpora, si tantum notas odor attulit auras?
Nonne canis nidum veneris nasutus odore
Quaerit, et erranti trahitur sublambere lingua?
Respuit at gustum cupidus, labiisque retractis
Elevat os, trepidansque novis impellitur aestris
Inserit et vivum felici vomere semen.--
Quam tenui filo caecos adnectit amores
Docta Venus, vitaeque monet renovare favillam!--ANON.

The following curious experiment is related by Galen. "On dissecting a goat
great with young I found a brisk embryon, and having detached it from the
matrix, and snatching it away before it saw its dam, I brought it into a
certain room, where there were many vessels, some filled with wine, others
with oil, some with honey, others with milk, or some other liquor; and in
others were grains and fruits; we first observed the young animal get upon
its feet, and walk; then it shook itself, and afterwards scratched its side
with one of its feet: then we saw it smelling to every one of these things,
that were set in