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Show 90 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. " And last Suggestion's mystic power describes Ideal hosts arranged in trains 'Or tribes. 86 when the Nymph with volant finger rings. Her dulcet harp, and shakes the sounding sttings.; As with soft voice she trills the enamour'd song,. Successive notes, unwill'd, the strain prolong; The transient trains Assoc'rATION ~teers, And sweet vibrations charm the astonish' cl ears. QO " ON rapid feet o'er hills, and plains, and rocks ~ Speed the scared leveret and rapacious fox; On rapid pinions cleave the fields above rfhe hawk descending, and escaping dove; With nicer nostril track the tainted ground The hungry vulture, and the prowling hound; Association steers, l. 91. Association is an exertion or change of some extreme part of the sensorium residing jn the muscles and ·OrO'ans of sense in consequence of some antecedent or attendant b fibrous contractions. Associate ideas, therefore, are those which are preceded by other ideas or muscular motion , without the intervention of irritation, scnsatio11, or volition between them; these are also termed ideas of suggestion. CAN'l'O Ill. PROGRESS OF THE MIND. Converge reflected light with nicer eye The midnight owl, and n1icroscopic fly; With finer ear pursue their nightly course The listening lion, and the alarmed horse. " ,..~he branching forehead with diverging horns Crests the bold buJl, the jealous stag adorns; Fierce rival boars with side-long fury wield The pointed tusk, and guard with shoulder-shield; Bounds the dread tiger o'er the affrighted .heath Arm' d with sharp talons, and resistless teeth; The pouncing eagle bears in clinched claws 91 100 The struggling lamb, and rends with ivory jaws; 11 o The tropic eel, electric in his ire, Alarms the waves with unextinguis~'d fire; . The brancldng f~rehead, I. 103. The peculiarities of the shapes of ammals which distinguish them from each other, are enumerated in Zoonomia, Sect. XXXIX. 4. 8, on Generation, and are believed to have been gradually formed from similar living fibres, and are varied by reproduction. Many of these parts of animals are there shown t() have arisen from their three great desires of lust, hunger, and security. Tile tropic eel, I. I ll. Gymnotus electricus. |