Excerpt from The Natural History of SuperstitionLet us however {tick clofe to Truth. I intend neither to be feduced nor to dazzle my own Eyes by Arguments lefs folid than fpecious. Be'alts in general fpeak little. There are even fome of lo filent a Difpofition, that they won't drop four Words a Day. Such are among thofe we know, Afi'es, Horfes, Oxen, Sheep, and the major Part of the Q1adrupeds. The Reafon 15 very plain. It is becaufe Nature has given thele Animals only a Food fo very flight and eafy to be digefted, that they are incefi'antly obliged to renew it, in order to prevent Hunger, and this takes up mol'c of their Leifure. But in return you mul't own, that there are Animals which fpeak without the leal't Intermifiion. Such are among others the Birds. (and here I beg of you to obferve that it is the Females who fpeak the leali) As the Language of Birds 15, as I may fay, the belt articulated, and the molt fenfible to us, let us take it for an Example. From it you Iball be able to judge of the Language of the other Beafts, by putting be tween them the Differences which are eafily oh ferved 1n each Species.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.