articulars.

8. But at the same time the hen, that has all this seeming ingenuity
(which is indeed absolutely necessary for the propagation of the
species) considered in other respects, is without the least glimmerings
of thought or common sense. She mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg,
and sits upon it in the same manner: she is insensible of any increase
or diminution in the number of those she lays: she does not distinguish
between her own and those off another species; and when the birth
appears of ever so different a bird, will cherish it for her own. In all
these circumstances, which do not carry an immediate regard to the
subsistence of herself or her species, she is a very idiot.

9. There is not, in my opinion, any thing more mysterious in nature than
this instinct in animals, which thus, rises above reason, and falls
infinitely short of it. It cannot be accounted for by any properties of
matter, and at the same time works after so odd a manner, that one
cannot think it the faculty of an intellectual being. For my own part, I
look upon it as upon the principle of gravitation in bodies, which is
not to be explained by any known qualities inherent in the bodies
themselves, nor from any laws in mechanism; but, according to the best
notions of the greatest philosophers, is an immediate impression from
the first mover, and the divine energy acting in the creature.

_Good-Breeding._

1. Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an
inferior acceptable. It smoothes distinction, sweetens conversation, and
makes every one in the company pleased with himself. It produces good
nature and mutual benevolence, encourages the timorous, soothes the
turbulent; humanizes the fierce, and distinguishes a society of
civilized persons from a confusion of savages. In a word, complaisance
is a virtue that blends all orders of men together in a friendly
intercourse of words and actions, and is suited to that equality in
human nature which every one ought to consider, so far as is consistent
with the order and economy of the world.

2. If we could look into the secret anguish and affliction of every
man's heart, we should often find, that more of it arises from little
imaginary distresses, such as checks, frowns, contradictions,
expressions of contempt, and (what _Shakspeare_ reckons among other
evils under the sun)

"--The poor man's contumely, The insolence of office, and the spurns
That p