An Account of the Life And Writings of James Beattie 3
An Account of the Life And Writings of James Beattie 3
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That some inferior animals should be able to mimic human articulation, will not seem' wonderful, when we recollect, that even by machines certain words have been articu- lated; but that the parrot should annex thought to the.
word he utters, is as unlikely as that a machine should do so. Rogue and knave are uttered by every parrot; but the ideas they stand for are incomprehensible, ex- cept by beings endued with reason a,nd a moral facultjr.
It has, however, been a common opinion, and is pro- b...able enough, that there may be, among irrational aoi* mals, -something which, by a figure, we may call lanr ^ioge : some mode by which one animal can make his Digitized byGoogk APPENDIX. 271 thoughts^ his intentions, and his wishes^ known to an-* other of his own species. This is so well autheikticated, as scarcely to admit of a doubt."^ Pope has elegantly employed the epithet half-rtasomng elephant to this pur- pose^ even as the instinctive economy of bees is figura- tively called government This at least is evident^ that jthe aatural voices of one animal are in some degree in- telligible^ or convey particular feelings or impulses to others of the ssame species.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
That some inferior animals should be able to mimic human articulation, will not seem' wonderful, when we recollect, that even by machines certain words have been articu- lated; but that the parrot should annex thought to the.
word he utters, is as unlikely as that a machine should do so. Rogue and knave are uttered by every parrot; but the ideas they stand for are incomprehensible, ex- cept by beings endued with reason a,nd a moral facultjr.
It has, however, been a common opinion, and is pro- b...able enough, that there may be, among irrational aoi* mals, -something which, by a figure, we may call lanr ^ioge : some mode by which one animal can make his Digitized byGoogk APPENDIX. 271 thoughts^ his intentions, and his wishes^ known to an-* other of his own species. This is so well autheikticated, as scarcely to admit of a doubt."^ Pope has elegantly employed the epithet half-rtasomng elephant to this pur- pose^ even as the instinctive economy of bees is figura- tively called government This at least is evident^ that jthe aatural voices of one animal are in some degree in- telligible^ or convey particular feelings or impulses to others of the ssame species.
What to read after An Account of the Life And Writings of James Beattie 3?
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