with their Noſes, to as great a Degree of Exactneſs, as the beſt Dogs could have done; nor that all theſe barbarous Nations ſupport Nakedneſs without Pain, uſe ſuch large Quantities of Piemento to give their Food a Reliſh, and drink like Water the ſtrongeſt Liquors of Europe.
As yet I have conſidered Man merely in his Phyſical Capacity; let us now endeavour to examine him in a Metaphyſical and Moral Light.
I can diſcover nothing in any mere Animal but an ingenious Machine, to which Nature has given Senſes to wind itſelf up, and guard, to a certain Degree, againſt every thing that might deſtroy or diſorder it. I perceive the very ſame things in the Human Machine, with this Difference, that Nature alone operates in all the Operations of the Beaſt, whereas Man, as a free Agent, has a Share in his. One chuſes by inſtinct; the other by an act of
