Note 1344 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
Montaigne, Essays, Book ii. Chap. 12: "Democritus held and proved, that most of the arts we have were taught us by other animals, as by the spider to weave and sew, by the swallow to build, by the swan and nightingale music, and by several animals to make medicines."