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1 1| must next make a survey of animals and all living things, in 2 1| important attributes of animals, whether common to all or 3 1| be said to belong to all animals. But there are, besides 4 1| peculiar to certain species of animals. The most important of these 5 1| this affection belongs to animals. Sensation must, indeed, 6 1| indeed, be attributed to all animals as such, for by its presence 7 1| necessarily appertain to all animals, touch, for the reason given 8 1| seeing, are found in all animals which possess the faculty 9 1| bad or destructive. But in animals which have also intelligence 10 1| sound, and, to some few animals, those also of voice. indirectly, 11 2| glistening. In sanguineous animals the white of the eye is 12 2| eyelids. The eyes of bloodless animals are covered with a hard 13 4| acuteness to that of the lower animals, and is, when compared with 14 4| excels that of all other animals in fineness, and Taste is 15 4| constitutes nutriment for animals. Now, among the perceptible 16 4| elements of the food which animals assimilate, the tangible 17 5| are agreeable as long as animals have an appetite for the 18 5| agreeable, either, to those animals that do not like the food 19 5| they are perceptible to all animals in common.~The other class 20 5| in any degree stimulate animals to food, nor do they contribute 21 5| perceptible also to the lower animals. And odours of the latter 22 5| respiration, not in all animals, but in man and certain 23 5| certain other sanguineous animals, e.g. quadrupeds, and all 24 5| alone, so to speak, among animals perceives and takes pleasure 25 5| region. On all the other animals which have lungs, Nature 26 5| that they respire the other animals have already sufficient 27 5| denominate knipes. Among marine animals, too, the murex and many 28 5| murex and many other similar animals have an acute perception 29 5| smelling takes place in animals only while respiring (for 30 5| fact is manifest in all the animals which do respire), whereas 31 5| always off: just as some animals have eyelids on their eyes, 32 5| cannot see, whereas hard-eyed animals have no lids, and consequently 33 5| above, not one of the lower animals shows repugnance to the 34 5| of charcoal, so the lower animals perish from the strong fumes 35 5| Pythagoreans, that some animals are nourished by odours 36 5| besides this, we see that all animals have a receptacle for food,