Name each nice change appulfive powers fupply

To the quick sense of touch, or ear or eye.
Or in fine traits abftracted forms fuggeft
Of Beauty, Wisdom, Number, Motion, Reft;
Or, as within reflex ideas move,

Trace the light fteps of Reafon, Rage, or Love.
The next new founds adjunctive thoughts recite,
As hard, odorous, tuneful, fweet, or white. 380
The next the fleeting images felect

Of action, fuffering, causes and effect;

Or mark existence, with the march fublime
O'er earth and ocean of recording TIME.

nouns, with the addition of another idea to them, as of acting or fuffering; or of more than one other annexed idea, as of time, and alfo of exiftence. These with the numerous abbreviations, fo well illuftrated by Mr. Horne Tooke in his Diversions of Purley, make up the general theory of language, which confifts of the fymbols of ideas reprefented by vocal or written words; or by parts of those words, as their terminations; or by their difpofition in respect to their order or fucceffion; as further explained in Additional Note XIV.

"The GIANT FORM On Nature's centre stands, And waves in ether his unnumber'd hands; Whirls the bright planets in their filver spheres, And the vaft fun round other systems steers;

Till the laft trump amid the thunder's roar Sound the dread Sentence "TIME SHALL BE NO MORE!"

"Last steps Abbreviation, bold and strong, 391 And leads the volant trains of words along; With fweet loquacity to HERMES fprings, And decks his forehead and his feet with wings.

VII. "As the foft lips and pliant tongue are taught With other minds to interchange the thought; And found, the symbol of the sense, explains In parted links the long ideal trains; From clear conceptions of external things The facile power of Recollection fprings.

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In parted links, 1. 398. As our ideas confift of fucceffive

"Whence REASON's empire o'er the world

prefides,

And man from brute, and man from man divides;

trains of the motions, or changes of figure, of the extremities of the nerves of one or more of our fenfes, as of the optic or auditory nerves; these fucceffive trains of motion, or configuration, are in common life divided into many links, to each of which a word or name is given, and it is called an idea. This chain of ideas may be broken into more or fewer links, or divided in different parts of it, by the customs of different people. Whence the meanings of the words of one languege cannot always be exactly expreffed by those of another; and hence the acquirement of different languages in their infancy may affect the modes of thinking and reasoning of whole nations, or of different claffes of fociety; as the words of them do not accurately fuggeft the fame ideas, or parts of ideal trains; a circumftance which has not been fufficiently analysed.

Whence Reafon's empire, 1. 401. The facility of the use of the voluntary power, which is owing to the poffeffion of the clear ideas acquired by our superior sense of touch, and after wards of vifion, distinguishes man from brutes, and has given him the empire of the world, with the power of improving nature by the exertions of art.

Reasoning is that operation of the fenforium by which we excite two or many tribes of ideas, and then reexcite the ideas VOL. III.

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Compares and measures by imagined lines
Ellipfes, circles, tangents, angles, fines;
Repeats with nice libration, and decrees
In what each differs, and in what agrees;
With quick Volitions unfatigued felects

Means for fome end, and caufes of effects;
All human science worth the name imparts,
And builds on Nature's base the works of Arts. 410

"The Wafp, fine architect, furrounds his domes With paper-foliage, and suspends his combs;

in which they differ or correfpond. If we determine this difference, it is called judgment; if we in vain endeavour to determine it, it is called doubting.

If we reexcite the ideas in which they differ, it is called diftinguishing. If we reexcite thofe in which they correspond, it is called comparing.

The Wafp, fine architect, 1. 411. Thofe animals which poffefs a better sense of touch are, in general, more ingenious than others. Thofe which have claviculæ, or collar-bones, and thence use the forefeet as hands, as the monkey, squirrel, rat, are more ingenious in feizing their prey or escaping from danger. And the ingenuity of the elephant appears to rife

Secured from frost the Bee industrious dwells,

And fills for winter all her waxen cells;

The cunning Spider with adhesive line
Weaves his firm net immeasurably fine;

The Wren, when embryon eggs her cares engrofs,
Seeks the foft down, and lines the cradling mofs;
Confcious of change the Silkworm-Nymphs begin
Attach'd to leaves their gluten-threads to spin; 420
Then round and round they weave with circling
heads

Sphere within Sphere, and form their filken beds.

from the sense of touch at the extremity of his probofcis, which has a prominence on one fide of its cavity like a thumb to close against the other fide of it, by which I have seen him readily pick up a fhilling which was thrown amongst the straw he flood upon. Hence the excellence of the sense of touch. in many infects feems to have given them wonderful ingenuity fo as to equal or even excel mankind in fome of their arts and difcoveries; many of which may have been acquired in fituations previous to their prefent ones, as the great globe itself, and all that it inhabit, appear to be in a perpetual state of mutation and improvement; fee Additional Note IX.