BOOK IV.Of Animals in general.
Of Animals in general.
In the lastBook, having survey’d the Earth it self in Particular, I shall next take a View of the Inhabitants thereof; or the several Kinds of Creatures[a], that have their Habitation, Growth, or Subsistence thereon.
These Creatures are either Sensitive, or Insensitive Creatures.
In speaking of those endow’d with Sense, I shall consider:
I. Some Things common to them all.
II. Things peculiar to their Tribes.
I. The Things in common, which I intend to take Notice of, are these Ten:
1. The fiveSenses, and their Organs.
2. The great Instrument of Vitality,Respiration.
3. TheMotion, or Loco-motive Faculty of Animals.
4. ThePlace, in which they live and act.
5. TheBalanceof their Numbers.
6. TheirFood.
7. TheirCloathing.
8. TheirHouses,NestsorHabitations.
9. Their Methods ofSelf-Preservation.
10. TheirGeneration, andConservationof their Species by that Means.
FOOTNOTES:[a]Principio cœlum, ac terras, camposque liquentes,Lucentemque globum Lunæ, Titaniaque astraSpiritus intùs alit, totamque infusa per artusMens agitat molem, & magno se corpore miscet.Inde hominem, pecudumque genus, vitæque volantum,Et quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.Igneus est illis vigor, & cœlestis origoSeminibus.Virgil. Æneid. L. 6. Carm. 724.
[a]Principio cœlum, ac terras, camposque liquentes,Lucentemque globum Lunæ, Titaniaque astraSpiritus intùs alit, totamque infusa per artusMens agitat molem, & magno se corpore miscet.Inde hominem, pecudumque genus, vitæque volantum,Et quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.Igneus est illis vigor, & cœlestis origoSeminibus.Virgil. Æneid. L. 6. Carm. 724.
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Principio cœlum, ac terras, camposque liquentes,Lucentemque globum Lunæ, Titaniaque astraSpiritus intùs alit, totamque infusa per artusMens agitat molem, & magno se corpore miscet.Inde hominem, pecudumque genus, vitæque volantum,Et quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.Igneus est illis vigor, & cœlestis origoSeminibus.Virgil. Æneid. L. 6. Carm. 724.
Principio cœlum, ac terras, camposque liquentes,Lucentemque globum Lunæ, Titaniaque astraSpiritus intùs alit, totamque infusa per artusMens agitat molem, & magno se corpore miscet.Inde hominem, pecudumque genus, vitæque volantum,Et quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.Igneus est illis vigor, & cœlestis origoSeminibus.Virgil. Æneid. L. 6. Carm. 724.
Principio cœlum, ac terras, camposque liquentes,Lucentemque globum Lunæ, Titaniaque astraSpiritus intùs alit, totamque infusa per artusMens agitat molem, & magno se corpore miscet.Inde hominem, pecudumque genus, vitæque volantum,Et quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.Igneus est illis vigor, & cœlestis origoSeminibus.
Principio cœlum, ac terras, camposque liquentes,
Lucentemque globum Lunæ, Titaniaque astra
Spiritus intùs alit, totamque infusa per artus
Mens agitat molem, & magno se corpore miscet.
Inde hominem, pecudumque genus, vitæque volantum,
Et quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.
Igneus est illis vigor, & cœlestis origo
Seminibus.
Virgil. Æneid. L. 6. Carm. 724.
Virgil. Æneid. L. 6. Carm. 724.