Chap. VIIT. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 14J 



While man was in this ftate, having only the capacity of intelleft 

 and fcience, he appears to have been a folitary and unfocial animal, 

 iuch as the wild beafts are. And this is likewife proved from fad and 

 obfervation: For the favage or wild men, that have been lately tlifco- 

 vered, when firft difcovered, ran away from man *. So that, in his 

 firil ftatc after his fall, man is an animal perfectly folitary and unfo- 

 cial. That man, in this ftate, has not intelled, and much lefs fci- 

 ence, is proved by a fa<ft that has been difcovered in this age ; and 

 it is, I think, a very curious and important fadt of natural hifto- 

 ry, as it relates to the hiftory of man ; I mean the ft;ory of Peter 

 the Wild Boy, of whom 1 have given an account in a former volumef. 



The next ftep, in his progrefs in this life from the folitary animal, 

 was to become a herding animal. But neither will herding make 

 man intelligen;. And this too is proved by a fa£t that has been difco- 

 vered in this age, and v/hich, I think, is likewife a very curious and 

 important fad: It is the cafe of the Orang Outangs ±, who live ia 

 the herding ftate ; and though, from an inftind: natural to all ani- 

 mals, they pratlice fome things necelTary for their prefervation, fuch 

 as making huts of branches of trees to preferve tliem from the in- 

 juries of the weather, and arming thcmfelves with fticks to defend 

 their perfons, yet they have not what can be called intelligence; though 

 they have carried the capacity for it fo far as to give marks of it, 

 fuch as a fenfe of what is beautiful, graceful, and becoming; which, 

 as 1 have fhown elfewhere, neceflarily accompanies intelle£l:§, and 

 even the faculty of acquiring it, as appears from the cafe of the 

 Orang Outang. What then was man to do, in order to recover (in fomc 

 degree at leaft in this life) the ufe of intelligence; for it would be in- 

 confiftent with the wifdom and goodnefs of God, that he fhould for 

 evi • continue in the ftate of mere capacity of intelled, or that ia 



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• Vol. III. p 45. f Ibid, p 57. and 367. 



X Page 141. of this volume. $ Page 71. Ibid. 



