REFLEXION.

Men have their weak Sides as well as _Apes_, and it is not in the Power

of Study and Discipline to extinguish Natural Inclinations; no not so

much as to Conceal them for any long time, but they’l be breaking out now

and then by Starts and Surprizes, and discover themselves. The _Apes_

were Taught their _Apes_ Tricks by a Dancing-Master; but it was _Nature_

that Taught them to Eat Apples, and the Natural Institution was much the

stronger of the Two.

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