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 ſmalleſt particle of reaſon, is nevertheleſs extremely puzzled what to do with that ſurprizing inſtance of memory in the dog of Ulyſſes.—He reſolves it at length, however, not into ſenſe, but ſenſation.—"Quid autem hoc putas eſſe, niſi vim quandam ſentiendi non ſciendi."

I will allow that man poſſeſſes the faculty of reaſon in a degree ſuperior to that of other animals, that is to ſay, generally, but not in every individual of the ſpecies—for a ſagacious elephant is wiſer than one half of the human race.

"We run, though not ſo ſwift as the ſtag; we ſee, though not ſo acutely as the hawk; and though we are neither as to