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roots, he would feed upon them likewir* ; and, accordingly, as to 

 roots, Dean Swift, in the account above -mentioned, fays tl>at he. 

 was fo expert in finding truiHes, that a dog was an afs to him*. 



Setting afide, therefore, the teftimony, both of antient authors and 

 modern travellers, I think thefe two inflances, the one of the Orano- 

 Outang child, whom we muft believe to be a human creature, if we 

 give credit to what Mr Buffon relates, or, if we will not go fo far as 

 even to France for information concerning our own fpecies, the other 

 of Peter the Wild Boy, whom every one among us may fee with his own 

 eyes, muft convince even thofe, who believe nothing of antient times 

 or remote countries, that men are not, nor have not been always 

 the fame, in all ages, and all nations, fuch as we fee them at prefent 

 in Europe — As to the philofopher v/ho knows that we are com- 

 pounded of two fubftances quite diftind:, the Animal and Intellec- 

 tual Mind, he cannot have the leaft doubt that there is a progrefs 

 in the /pedes as well as in the individual ; and that the Animal muft 

 at firft predominate in both, and the Inteiledual Nature be produ- 

 ced only at laft, flowly even in the individuals among us, who leara 

 both by imitation and teaching, but infinitely more flowly amon^- 

 perfed Savages, who muft invent and teach themfelves every 

 thing.. 



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* In an Edition ■ of Swift's wprks, in 1751, printed in London by C. Bathurfl:, I 

 find that the account of Peter is faid to be the work of Dr Arbuthnot, which fliould 

 give it an additional credit, as he had the keeping of him ; and, as there is not the 

 leaft infinuation there that he was an idiot, I am convinced that no man, at tliar 

 time, believed fo ; nor do I think it is poflible that any man who fees him at pre- 

 fent can be of that opinion. The faft which Mr Burgefs obferves of his firft filling a 

 dung cart, and then emptying it, only fliows that he knew nothing of farming; 

 And, as that was the cafe, it wa-s natural enough, that having feen a dung cart empl 

 tied, as well as filled, he ftiould do both. 



