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Mandeville

Fable of the bees vol 2 p. 135

Observes that a healthy and vigorous horse and some birds display self-love, or pride.

P. 168 Says laughter is a mechanical action which we are naturally thrown into, when we are unaccountably pleased, for when we admire or approve of any thing, or indulge any appetite, we are far from laughing. Alludes to the fact that an infant born deaf and blind, laughs when tickles.

P. 169 Exporrigere frontem is a Latin phrase for being merry.

P. 170 When pain or woe [insertion:] Surprise makes us cry out, the mouth is drawn round or oval, hence all nations cry O. Prepared for any exertion

P 171 Weeping in distress is not so much a sign of sorrow, as it is an indication that we can bear our sorrow no longer, therefore it is counted unmanly to weep.

P 200 The desire of meliorating our condition is not to be perceived in any creature but Man.

P 236 Babies personify and try to punish every things that offends them; in the same manner, the savage, who is a grown up child personifies Evil, accidents; — as Goad does not urge a savage to exertion, it is personified later.

P. 284 Everything is easy to the Deity, but to speak after a harsh manner, it is evident that in forming this earth, no less wisdom or solicitude was required in contriving the various ways and means to get rid and

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p. 259 – speculate upon a savage woman (& animals) how long it would be before the discovery was made of the cause of children

 

"unaccurately placed", be not if he [3 words illeg] disquiet him

Laugh of scorn or derision.

destroy animals, thou seems to have been employed in producing them.