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nothing could be more; and that in proportion 

 to its Body its Brain was alfo as large as a Man's. 



Since therefore (he proceeds) the Brain of our 

 Pigmy doth in all Refpeds fo exadly refemble a 

 Man's, I might here make the fame Reflection 

 the Parijiaiis did upon the Organs of Speech^ that 

 there is no reafon to think that Agents do per- 

 form fuch and fuch Aftions becaufe they are 

 found with Organs proper thereunto, for then our 

 Pigmy might be really a Man; the Organs in 

 animal Bodies are only a regular Compages of 

 Pipes and Veffels for the Fluids to pafs thro', and 

 are paffive ; what adtuates them are the Humours 

 and Fluids, and animal Life confifts in their due 

 and regular Motion in this organical Body j but 

 thofe nobler Faculties in the Mind of Man muft 

 certainly have a higher Principle, or Matter orga- 

 nizd could never produce them ; for why elfe, 

 where the Organ is the fame, fhould not the 

 ^^/(?w be the fame too? 



Objeft. Some may here objeB and argue : If the 

 Body of Man be thus perfe^, why did God make 

 any other Animals '? For the mofi perfeB Being, the 

 bejl, an infinitely good Agent ^ which wants neither 

 Wifdom 7ior Power, pould (one would think) only 

 produce the mofi perfect. 



Anfw, To which I anfwcr : i. That according 

 to this Argumentation one might infer, that God 

 muft produce but one Kind of Creature, and that 



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