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live in little Societies— propagate with Women, and the Offspring propagates.— 

 One feen in the Ifland of Sumatra by a French Gentleman — melancholy and dif- 

 contented with its Condition, but not malicious.— 1 he Oran Outang not of a Spe- 

 cies of Man different from us. — No Divifion of Man, or of the loweft Species of 

 any G'-nus, into other Speciefts. — Origin of the Error which fuppofes different 

 Speciefes of Men, is the not knowing the Progrefs of Alan. — This Characteriftic 

 of him, Part of the antient Definition of him. — From Buffon's Account of the 

 Oran Outang he faw, he mull have been a Man — he wanted nothing but Speech, 

 which he could not have at his Time of Life — 'had more Underftanding than any 

 Child among us. — Nothing but Vanity can hinder us from being convinced of 

 the O^an Outang being a Man. — If the Oran Outang be not a Man, Peter the 

 Wild Boy is not one. — A further AccQunt of Peter from an Oxford Gentleman. — 

 Some Reflections upon that Account. r*»g^33S 



