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CHAP. I. 



Of the difficulty of defining Afa;i, — This difficulty arifes from its being ncceffary to de- 

 fine what he is by Nature. — Ariftotle the only author who has defined Man His 



definition explained, and the full definition given tranflated into Englifh. — All the 

 operations of the Human Mind, the animal as well as the intelleftual, proceed from 

 Comparifon. — The wonderful chain of things in Nature, to be feen in the progreft 

 of the Human Mind. — ^Tliis definition of man not intelligible to thofe who have flu- 

 died only the Philofophy of Mr Locke. — The author's apology for pretending to 



teach a better philofophy than any that has been invented in modern times. The 



propriety of defining Man by his comparitive faculty and the capacity of intelleft and 

 fciencc. — Nothing faid of the Body of Man in the definition ; — nor has Ariftotle any 

 where clfe faid that he is by nature ereft. — The contrary is now found to be the cafe. 

 — The fafls by which this is proved. — The wonderful progrefs of Man, from a qua- 

 druped to fuch an animal as he now is. — Of the world of art which, he has created, 

 — and made sll the Powers of Nature fubfervient to him. p. j i 



CHAP. II. 



Of the feveral fteps of the human progreffion from the Brute to the Man.— The Author 

 has feen three ftages of that progreffion ;—;;fr/?, Peter the Wild BoY;—/econd/y, The 

 Ourang Outang, of whom the Author has difcovered fome fafls, fince he publiihed 

 upon the fubjea -.—thirdly. The Wild Girl in France.— She was an amphibious ani- 

 mal. — Several particulars concerniHg her mentioned. p. 2C 



C ^ A P. III. 



The firft ftep that men made, in their progrefs to civilization, was to learn the ufe of 

 their own body-^r/?, By ereaing themfelvcsj then by learning the ufe of their 



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