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 lie down, go slow or fast, turn to the right or left, skip, as they are differently affected in their minds; when they are doubtful or deliberate which way to take; when they eat or drink out of hunger and thirst; when they eat or drink more or less according to their humour, or as they like the water or the pasture; when they chuse the sweetest and best pasture; when they chuse among pastures that are indifferent or alike; when they copulate; when they are fickle or stedfast in their amours; when they take more or less care of their young; when they act in virtue of vain fears; when they apprehend danger and fly from it, and sometimes defend themselves; when they quarrel among themselves about love or other matters, and terminate those quarrels by fighting; when they follow those leaders among themselves that presume to go first; and when they are either obedient to the shepherd and his dog or refractory. And why should man be deem’d free in the performance of the same or like actions? He has indeed more knowledge than sheep. He takes in more things, as matter of pleasure,