62 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book f, 



by which he is both fecial and not fecial : So that man appears to 

 be made up of contradidlions; for he has intelle£t, and he has not 

 intellect ; he is a biped, and he is not a biped ; he is a land animal, 

 and he is not a land animal ; he is a water animal, and not a water 

 animal ; and, arnong other varieties, he is, according to Ariftotle,. 

 gregarious, and not gregarious ; to which may be added, political,, 

 and not political. He is therefore as much mixed in mind, as L 

 have fhewn that he is in body ; fo that he can hardly be faid to bej 

 one fpecies of animals, but a compound of all fpeciefes. 



That man can live in the folitary ftate, is proved by many exam" 

 pies of folitary favages that have been found : And that in fuch a 

 ftate he has no inftindt or inclination which prompts him to affociate- 

 with his fellow creatures, is evident from this, that thefe folitary fa- 

 vages, when they arc firft difcovered, run away from men, which 

 was the cafe particularly of the favages that were difcovered in 

 the Pyrenean mountains * ; For that by nature and inftindl we have: 

 not that attachment to our fpecies, which other animals have 

 is evident, from a peculiarity of man that I have not yet men- 

 tioned, namely, that he is the only land animal that feeds upon his 

 own fpecies, and prefers that food to any other. This I have elfe- 

 where very clearly proved f. It was therefore fome reafon of con- 

 venience- 



• Vol. in. of this work, p. 46. and 47. 



f Origin and Progrefs of Language, vol. i. p. 227, 228, and 229, in the note. 

 Nor does this contradidt what I have faid of the worth and goodnefs of the people 

 of the Pelew Iflands ; for the New Zealanders are as generous and noble minded a 

 people as thofe of Pelew, yet they cat their enemies. And the faft is, that when 

 men have once got a tafte of animal food, they become very fond of it, as we fee 

 men among us are very fond of many things ftill more unnatural than the flefli 

 diet, fuch as tobacco and fpirits. But men, farther advanced in civility and arts than 



the 



