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hands ; and, lajllyy to fwlm. — Swimming not natural to man ; but his acquiiitions In 

 that .way wonderful. — Till man learned the ufe of his own body, he could not pro- 

 vide fufEciently for liis fubfiftence. — At firft he lived upon the natural fruits of the 

 earth. — Thefe failing, he took to hunting and fifliing, being able to live upon any 

 kind of food. — But only agriculture could furnilh fubfiftence for numbers of men, 

 living together in clofe communication. — Before fuch an art could be invented and 

 peaftifed, language was neceflary. Page 35 



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Of the habitation of man in the natural ftatc. — It was in caves, which nature furnilhed, 

 or which he dug out of the rocks. — ^This proved by the authority of antient authors 

 — and monuments flill eiifting. — INIan as various in the form of his body, as in any 

 thing elfe. — Of men with tails. — Of Satyrs, with feet of goats, and with horns upon 

 their heads. — ^This proved by the teftimony of St. Jfronie. — Of men without heads, 

 but with eyes in their breafts ; — and of men with only one eye in their forehead. — 

 Thefe fafts attefted by St. Augujlinc. — Of men with the heads of dogs — proved by 

 the teftimony of feveral authors. — Of the Sphynx. — The exiftence of fuch an animal 

 only attefted by Agartharchides. — This author had a very good opportunity of being 

 informed. — His work is extant, and bears no mark of fable or romance. — No proof 

 that fuch animals did never exift, that they are not now to be found. — Reafon why 

 they[fliould have ceafed to exift. — The wonderful variety of the outward form of man, 

 as well as of his inward form. — Of the variety of the fize of men in different ages 

 and different nations of the world. — The civilized life makes a great difference in this 

 refpeft. — But there is a difference alfp in the natural ftate. — This proved by the ex- 

 ample of the Ourang Outang, P- 43 



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Of the character of man in his natural ftate. — Not known what his character was in the 

 firft ftage of that ftate, when he was a quadruped ; — but from what we know of the 

 Ourang Outang, man in the fecond ftage of his progreffion, is a fbcial, friendly ani- 

 mal, and capable of intellect and fcience. — To judge of a man in the civilifed ftate, 

 after ke has got the ufe of language, a diftindtion is to be made betwixt thofe who 

 live by hunting, and thofe who fubfift upon the fruits of the earth. — The inhabitants 

 of the Pelew Iflands a fpecimen of what men are in the firft ftate of civilifation, and 

 before they are hunters. — The wrong conftru<ftion given by fome men to the behavi- 

 our of the inhabitants of the Pelew Iflands towards us. — The behaviour of the New 

 Zealanders as noble and generous as that of the Pelew men. — A remarkable inftance 

 of their behaviour given. p. 54 



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