from thofe which afterwards perform the famefunction. As foon as it comes into the world,this new fet of tubes and canals, which the pro-vidential care of Nature had for a long time be-fore been gradually preparing, is all at once andinftantaneoufly opened. They are all empty, andthey require to be filled. An uneafy fenfationaccompanies the one fituation, and an agreeableone the other. The fmell of the fubftance whichis fitted for filling them , increafes and irritatesthat uneafy fenfation, and produces hunger, orthe appetite for food.
But all the appetites which take their originfrom a certain ftate of the body, feem to fuggeftthe means of their own gratification; and, evenlong before experience, fome anticipation or pre-conception of the pleafure which attends that gra-tification. In the appetite for fex, which fre-quently, I am difpofed to believe almoft always,comes a long time before the age of puberty,this is perfeihly and diflindlly evident. The ap-petite for food fuggefls to the new-born infantthe operation of fucking, the only means by whichit can poffibly gratify that appetite. It is conti-nually fucking. It fucks even whatever is prefen-ted to its mouth. It fucks even when there is no-thing prefented to its mouth, and fome anticipa-tion or preconception of the pleafure which it isto enjoy in fucking, feems to make it delight inputting its mouth into the fliape and configura-tion by which it alone can enjoy that pleafure.There are other appetites in which the moft
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