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nirdly. The Convenkncy of this Site of our 

 Bodies will more clearly appear, if we confider 

 what a pitiful Condition we had been in, if we 

 had been conftantl)^ neceffitated to ftand and 

 walk upon all Four ; Man being, by the Make 

 of his Body, of all Quadrupeds (for now I mufl 

 compare him with them) the moft unfit for that 

 kiijd of InceJJas^ as I ihall fliew anon ; and be- 

 fides that, we fhould have wanted, at leaft in a 

 great meafure, the Ufe of our Hand, that inva- 

 luable Inftrument, without which he had want- 

 ed moft of thofe Advantages we enjoy as reafon- 

 able Creatures, as I (hall mors particularly de- 

 monftrate afterwards. 



But it may be perchance objefted by fome, 

 that Nature did not intend this Ereftion of the 

 Body, but that it is fuperinduc'd and artificial ; 

 for that Children at firft creep on all four, ac- 

 cording to that of the Poet -, 



M(>x ^ladrupeSy rituque tulit Jua memhra fe- 

 7" arum. Ovid. 



To which I anfwer, that there is fo great an 

 Inequality in the Length of our Legs and Arms, 

 as w^ould make it extreamly inconvenient, if not 

 impoffible for us to walk upon all four, and fee 

 us almoft upon our Heads ; and therefore we fee 

 that Children do not creep upon their Hands 

 and Feet/ but upon their Hands and Knees; fo 



that 



