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fcatter'd (as I may fay) indifferently and carelefly 

 among Plants, it could not poffibly have hap- 

 pen'd but among fo many thoufand Species they 

 rauft have fallen to the Lot of fome few at leaft, 

 fome one of the ftrong, and not only of the v^eak ; 

 the fame hath been prov'd by the Inftance of the 

 Power given to the Hedge-hog and Armadillo^ of 

 contracting their Bodies into a globular Figure, 

 and fo hiding and fecuring their tender and un- 

 armed Parts. 



2. I fhall prove by another eminent Inftance 

 that Things did not make Ufes, becaufe there is 

 a Sort of Creatures which have all the Parts and 

 Organs which are fitted for a certain Aftion, and 

 employed for the Exercife of it by another Sort, 

 and yet make no ufe of them for that purpofe ; 

 that is, the Ape-Kind; the Parifian Academijii 

 in their Anatomy of fome Animals of this Kind 

 tell us, that the Mufcles of the Os Hyoides^ Tongue, 

 Larynx and Pharynx, which do moft ferve to ar- 

 ticulate a Word, were wholly like to thofe of 

 Man; and a great deal more than thofe of the 

 Handy which neverthelefs the Ape, which fpeaks 

 not, ufes with as much Perfedion as a Man ; 

 which demonftrates that Speech is an Adlion more 

 peculiar to Man, and which more diftinguiflies 

 him from Brutes than the Hands, which Anaxa- 

 goras, Arijiotle and Galen have thought to be the 

 Organ which Nature has given to Man as to the 

 wifeft of all Animals, for want perhaps of this 

 Refiedion j for the Ape is found provided by Na- 



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