STUDY VII. 9 



On either of thefe two fuppofitions, all the re- 

 lations of natural order areburftafunder, and fuch 

 difcords necelTarily involve the utter deftruâiion 

 of all focial order. Suppofe a nation of giants to 

 exift poffefled of our induftry, and inftigated by 

 our ferocious paffions. Let us place at the head 

 of it, a 'Tamerlane, and fee what would become of 

 our fortifications and of our armies before their 

 artillery, and their bayonets. 



As much as Nature has affeded variety in the 

 fpecies of Animals of the fame genus, though 

 they were to inhabit the fame regions, and to fub- 

 fift on the fame aliments, fo much has (he ftudied 

 uniformity in the produdion of the Human Spe- 

 cies, notwithftanding the difference of Climates 

 and of food. The accidental prolongation of the 

 coccyx, in fome human individuals, has been mif- 

 taken for a natural charadter, and a new fpecies of 

 men with tails, has been grafted on a principle fo 

 flimfy. Man may degrade himfelf to the level of 

 the beaft, by the indulgence of brutal appetite ; but 

 never was his noble form diflionoured by the tail, 

 the forked feet, and the horns of the brute. In 

 vain is the attempt made to trace an approxima- 

 tion of Man toward the clafs of mere animals, by 

 infenfible tranfitions. 



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