OP FOOD AND HUNGER. 307 



turally uniparous and provided with two breasts.* To 

 these arguments it may be added, that some men have 

 ruminated, — a power peculiar to herbivorous animals, 

 and that tame vegetable feeders are easily accustomed to 

 animal food, whereas carnivorous animals, excepting the 

 dog, can very seldom be brought to feed on vegetables. 

 The arguments of those who, with Helvetius,f regard 

 man as carnivorous, are derived from the conformation 

 of his stomach, the shortnes of his ccecum, &c. 



335. More careful observation, however, proves that 

 man is not destined for either kind of food alone, but 

 for both. His teeth, particularly the molares,j. (D) and 

 the peculiar structure of the intestines just alluded 

 to, (E) hold a middle rank between the same parts in 

 the ferae and in herbivorous animals. The mode in 

 which the condyles of the lower jaw are articulated 

 with the temporal bones, demonstrates it in the most 

 striking manner (F). 



336. As the human race exists in more parts of the 

 globe than any other kind of animal, we should have 

 been but ill provided for, if we had been destined to 

 subsist on either description of food alone; whereas 

 man now inhabits some countries which afford either 

 vegetable or animal food only. 



* Sur forigi/te de I'ineg-alite jiarmi les homines, p. 196 sq. 



•f Dc I'homme. T. ii. p. 17. 



t The opinion of Broussonet is singular. He thinks the human molares 

 closely resemble the teeth of herbivorous animals, and at the same time regr.rds 

 the incisores and canini as allied to those of the carnivorous tribes : and, after 

 comparing the number of the molares with that of the other teeth, concludes 

 that the quantity of vegetable food intended for man is to the quantity of animal 

 food as 20 to 12. 



But on this calculation it follows, that infants, who have four molares only 

 n each jaw, arc destined to consume a larger portion of animal food than adults, 

 ance the proportion of the molares to the other teeth is in them as 8 to 12. 



