10 ' STUDIES OF NATURE. 



Were there any human race in animal forms, 

 or any animal endowed with human reafon, they 

 would be publicly exhibited. We (liould have 

 them in Europe, efpecially in times like thefe, 

 when the whole Globe is pervaded and ranfacked 

 by fo many enlightened Travellers ; and when, I 

 do not fay Princes, but puppet-players import 

 alive into our fairs, the zebra fo wild, the elephant 

 fo lumpilh, tigers, lions, white bears, nay, up to 

 crocodiles; which have all been prefented to pub- 

 lic infpeclion in London. 



Vain is the attempt to eftablifh analogies be- 

 tween the human female, and the Ihe- orang-outang, 

 from the fitualion and configuration of the bofom, 

 from the periodical fexual purgations, from the 

 attitude, and even from a fort of modefty. Though 

 the female orang-outang pafles her life in the 

 woods, Allegrahiy furely, as has been obferved, 

 never could have modelled after her, his ftatue of 

 Diana, which is (hewn at Lucienne. There is a 

 much greater difference ftill between the realbn of 

 IVIan and that of the beafts, than there is be- 

 tween their forms ; and that man's muft have been 

 ftrangely perverted, who could advance, as a cele- 

 brated Author has done, that there is a greater 

 diftance between the underftanding of Newton, and 

 that of fuch or fuch a man, than between the un- 



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