66 THE NOMENCLATURE ,, 



ii 

 periodic courfes of the female, the voluntary oi* If 



forced intermixture of the NegreHTes with the |( 



apes, the produce of which has entered into both | 



fpecies ; and then confider, on the fnppofition jl 



that they are not the fame, how difficult it is to 1/ 



perceive the interval by vs'hich they are fepara- j- 



ted. i| 



If our judgment were linuted to figure alone, ij 

 I acknowledge that the ape might be regarded f 

 as a variety of the human fpecies. The Creator ji 

 lias not formed man's body on a model abfo- 

 lutely different from that of the mere animal. 

 He has comprehended the figure of man, as Vv'ell 

 as that of all other animals, under one general 

 plan. But, at the fame time that he has given 

 him a material form fimilar to that of the ape, 

 he has penetrated this animal body with a di- 

 vine fpirir. If he had conferred the fam.e pri- 

 vilege, not on the ape, hut on the meaneft, and 

 what appears to us to be the worft conftruded 

 animal, this fpecies would foon have become the 

 i-ival of man ; it would have excelled all the o- 

 ther animals by thinking and fpcaking. Wijat- 

 ever refemblance, therefore, takes place between ii 

 the Hottentot and the ape, the interval which ji 

 feparates them is immenfe ; becaufe the former .■ 

 is endowed with the faculties of thought and of | 

 fpeech. !| 



Who will ever be able to afcertaiii how the i{ 

 organization of an idiot difiers from that of ano- i| 

 ther man? Yet the defed is certainly in the ma- | 



teria 



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