'The Anatomy of ^ T YG Ml E. ~ 55 



There is a vaft difterence tobe obferved in the formation of the Parts, 

 that fer.ve to compofe the Brain in thefe various Animals. And tho' the 

 Brain of a Man^ in refpeft of his Body, be much larger than what is to 

 be met with in any other Animal (for Fefalim makes the Brain of a Man 

 to be as big as thofe of three Oxen) yet I think we can't fafely conclude 

 with him, that Animals, as they excell in the largenefs of the Brain^ fo 

 they do likewife in the Principal Faculties of the Soul : For if this be 

 ■ true, then our Pygmie muft equal a Man, or come very near him , fince 

 his Brain in proportion to his Body, was as large as a Man's. J'^efalius 

 (80) his words are thefe ; Cerebri nimirum conjimSiione Simia, Cank\ E- 

 qitus, Felis, C^ ^ladrupeda qua ha&enus vidi omnia, d^ Aves etiam uni- 

 verfs, fliirimaqHe Pifcium- genera, omni propemodum ex parte Hominz cor- 

 rejpondeant : neque itUitm fecanti occurrat difcrimen, qnodfechs de Hominisr, 

 qnam illorum Animalium funSfionibus fiatuendnm ejje pr^fcribat. Nijiforte' 

 quis meriib dicat Cerebri molem Homini, Perfe^ijjimo fane quod novimus 

 Animali, obtigijje maximam, ejiifqae Cerebrum etiam tribm Bourn Cerelrk 

 grandius reperiri : d^ deinfecunditm Corporis proportionemmox Simile, dein 

 Cant magnum quo que non ferns obtingere Cerebrum, quam ft Animali a Cerebri ^ 

 tantum praftarent mole, quanta Principis Anima viribi^^ apertius mciftiufve 

 donata. videnttir. 



Since therefore in all refpefts the Brain of our Pygmie does fo exactly 

 referable a Mans, I might here make the fame Refleftion the Parifians 

 did upon the Organs of Speech, That there if no reafon to think,, that A- 

 gents do perform fuch andfuch A&ions, becaufe they are found with Organs ' 

 proper thereunto : for then our Pygmie might be really a Man. The Or- 

 gans m Animal'^odatssiXt only ^rtgxA^x Compages of Pipes and Ve/Tels, 

 for the Fluids to pafs through, §nd are paffive. What aduates them,are 

 the Humours and Fluids : and Animal Life confifts in their due and regu- ' 

 lar motion in this Organicul Body. But thofe Nobler Faculties in the 

 Mind o^ Man, muft certainly have a %/jer Pr/«<r7/?/e ; and Matter orga- 

 nized could never produce them , for why elfe, where the Organ is the 

 fame, fhould not the Jtl/^^j- bethefametoo? and if all depended on the 

 Organ, not only om Pygmie, but other Brutes likewife, would be too 

 Hear akin to us. This Difference I cannot but remark, that the Ancients 

 were fond of making Brutes to be Men : on the contrary now, moft un- 

 philofophically, the Humour is, to make MenhmmtQX Brutes and Mat- 

 ter, Whereas in truth Man is part a Brute, part an Angel ; and is that - 

 Linli^ in the Creation, that joyns them both together. 



This Digrejjion may be the more pardonable, becaufe I have fo little to 

 fay here,befides juft naming the Partsx, and to tell you (what I have alrea- 

 dy) thatthey were all like to thofe ma. Man: For the Dura Mater, as a 

 Common Mswbrane, firmly fecured the fituation of the whole Brain,{[n(klf 



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