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to confute this fond Conceit of the Atheijisy by 

 denying them the Power to make ufe of thefe 

 Organs of Speech, which, whether they under- 

 ftand what they faid or not, they otherwife might 

 and would have done in Imitation of Man, and 

 that to greater Perfed:ion than Birds do, or are 

 capable of doing. 



Earther, To prove that thofe 72ohI.er Faculties 

 of the Soul, Reafon and IJnderJianding^ cannot be 

 produced by Matter organiz'd , but 

 muft have a higher Principle, * he » Dr. T%for. 

 thus argues : It is an Obfervation of 

 Vefaliuss^ that the Brain of Man, in rcfpedof his 

 Body, is much larger than what is to be met with 

 in any other Animals, exceeding in Bignefs three 

 Oxes Brains ; whence he infers, that as Animals 

 excel in the Largenefs of the Brain, fo they do 

 Jikewife in the principal Faculties of the Soul ^ 

 which Inference the Dodor cannot allow. 



It is (faith he) a generally receiv'd Opinion, 

 that the Brain is the immediate Seat of the Soui 

 itfelf ; whence one would be apt to think, tku 

 feeing there is fo great a Difparicy between the 

 Soul of a Man and a Brute^ the Organ in which 

 it is plac'd fhculd be very different too ; yet, by 

 comparing the Brain of our Pigmy [the Orang-^ 

 Oiitra?ig, or wild Ma?i\ with that of a Ma72^ and 

 with, the greateft Exad:nefs obferving each Part 

 'in both, it was very furprizing to me to find (o 

 great a Refemblance of the one to the other, as 



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