Ohap. X. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 239 



* fold at night : Now you are laft of all *.' And thus I think it is 

 proved, that there is a difference both in the Minds and Bodies of 

 individual Men, in the natural, as well as in the civilized ftate. 



The next queflion to be confidered is, Whether the difference of 

 individuals in our fpecies goes to the race ? And that it does fo with 

 refpe£l to the Body, among civilized nations, is evident ; for we fee 

 that weak, puny, or difeafed parents, have children of the like kind • 

 and, on the contrary, flrong, robuft, and healthy parents, have ge- 

 nerally children of the f\me fort. As to the natural ftate : There is 

 no inheritance of weakncffes and difeafes there ; but there may be 

 and I am perfuaded there is an inheritance of fuperior fize and 

 ftrength, or of any particular qualities of Body, fuch as colour and 

 fhape. 



Hippocrates the phyfician, in his treatife De A'ere^ Jguis, et 

 Locis f , relates a thing that appears very extraordinary upon this 

 fubjed. He fays, that, in a tribe of the Scythians, which he calls 

 Ma>cpox.g(paAoi, who had been in ufe, for many generations, to make the 

 heads of their children long, by fqueezing them betwixt two boards, 

 the children at laft came to be born with fuch heads ; fo that here 

 we have an artificial bodily quality defcending to the race: And he 

 fays, in the fame place, that bald men produce bald men, and diftort- 

 ed diftorted. 



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