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Article EXTRACT FROM AN ESSAY ON INSTINCT. ← Page 3 of 3 Article THE ORIGIN OF LITERARY JOURNALS. Page 1 of 2 →
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Extract From An Essay On Instinct.
animals , than between those of man and the most sagacious brutes . The notion that animals are machines is therefore too absurd to merit refutation . They possess , in some degree , every faculty of the busman mind . Sensation , memory , imagination , curiosity , cunning , & c . & c . are all discernible in them . Every species has a language . Brutes , without some portion of reason , could never make a proper use of
their senses . But many animals are capable of balancing motives , which is a pretty high degree of reason . Young animals examine all objects they meet ; the first period of their lives seems dedicated to study . Thus they gradually improve their faculties , and acquire a knoAvledge of the objects which surround them ; and men who , from peculiar circumstances , have been prevented from mingling with companions , are ahvays aulcAvard , cannot keep up their organs Avith dexterity j and often continue ignorant of the most common objects during- life . .
The Origin Of Literary Journals.
THE ORIGIN OF LITERARY JOURNALS .
IN the last century , it Avas a consolation , at least , for an unsuccessful -Writer , that he fell insensibl y into oblivion . If he committed the private folly of printing what no one Avould purchase , he had only to settle the matter with his publisher : he was not arraigned at the public tribunalas if he had committed a crime of magnitude . Butin those
, , times , the nation Avas little addicted to the cultivation of letters : the writers were then few , and the readers Avere not many . When , at length , a taste for literature spread itself through tlie body of the people , vanity induced the inexperienced and the ignorant to aspire to literary honours . To oppose these inroads into the haunts of the muses ' , periodical criticism brandished its formidable weapon ; and it tvas b
y the fall of others that our greatest genii have been taught to rise . M u ltifarious Avriring produced multifarious strictures ; and if the rays of criticism were not always of the strongest kind , yet so many continually issuing formed a focus , Avhich has enli ghtened those whose occupations had otherwise never permitted them to judge on-literary composition .
The ori gin of so many Literary Journals takes its birth in France . Denis de Salo , ecclesiastical counfellor in the parliament of Paris , invented the scheme of a work of this kind ; on the . 30 th of May 166 3 , appeared the first number of his Journal des Scavans . What is remarkable , he published his Essay in the name of the Sieur de Hedonville , who was ¦ his footmanOne is led to bthis circumstance
. suppose , y , that he entertained but a faint hope of ' its success ; or , perhaps , he thought that the scurrility of criticism might be sanctioned by its supposed author . The Avork , however , met with so favourable a reception VOL . II . . P ¦ ' k
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Extract From An Essay On Instinct.
animals , than between those of man and the most sagacious brutes . The notion that animals are machines is therefore too absurd to merit refutation . They possess , in some degree , every faculty of the busman mind . Sensation , memory , imagination , curiosity , cunning , & c . & c . are all discernible in them . Every species has a language . Brutes , without some portion of reason , could never make a proper use of
their senses . But many animals are capable of balancing motives , which is a pretty high degree of reason . Young animals examine all objects they meet ; the first period of their lives seems dedicated to study . Thus they gradually improve their faculties , and acquire a knoAvledge of the objects which surround them ; and men who , from peculiar circumstances , have been prevented from mingling with companions , are ahvays aulcAvard , cannot keep up their organs Avith dexterity j and often continue ignorant of the most common objects during- life . .
The Origin Of Literary Journals.
THE ORIGIN OF LITERARY JOURNALS .
IN the last century , it Avas a consolation , at least , for an unsuccessful -Writer , that he fell insensibl y into oblivion . If he committed the private folly of printing what no one Avould purchase , he had only to settle the matter with his publisher : he was not arraigned at the public tribunalas if he had committed a crime of magnitude . Butin those
, , times , the nation Avas little addicted to the cultivation of letters : the writers were then few , and the readers Avere not many . When , at length , a taste for literature spread itself through tlie body of the people , vanity induced the inexperienced and the ignorant to aspire to literary honours . To oppose these inroads into the haunts of the muses ' , periodical criticism brandished its formidable weapon ; and it tvas b
y the fall of others that our greatest genii have been taught to rise . M u ltifarious Avriring produced multifarious strictures ; and if the rays of criticism were not always of the strongest kind , yet so many continually issuing formed a focus , Avhich has enli ghtened those whose occupations had otherwise never permitted them to judge on-literary composition .
The ori gin of so many Literary Journals takes its birth in France . Denis de Salo , ecclesiastical counfellor in the parliament of Paris , invented the scheme of a work of this kind ; on the . 30 th of May 166 3 , appeared the first number of his Journal des Scavans . What is remarkable , he published his Essay in the name of the Sieur de Hedonville , who was ¦ his footmanOne is led to bthis circumstance
. suppose , y , that he entertained but a faint hope of ' its success ; or , perhaps , he thought that the scurrility of criticism might be sanctioned by its supposed author . The Avork , however , met with so favourable a reception VOL . II . . P ¦ ' k