y6 THE NOMENCLATURE, &c. 



Thus the ape, which philofophers, as well as 

 the vulgar, have regarded as a being difficult to 

 define, and whofe nature was at leaft equivocal, 

 and intermediate between that of man and the 

 animals, is, in fadl, nothing but a real brute, en- 

 dowed with the external mark of humanity, but 

 deprived of thought, and of every faculty which 

 properly conftitutes the human fpecies ; a brute 

 inferior to many others in his relative powers, 

 and ftill more eflentially difterent from the hu- 

 man race by his nature, his temperament, and 

 the time neceffary to his education, geftation, 

 growth, and duration of life ; that is, by all the 

 real habitudes which conftitute what is called 

 Nature in a particular being. 



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