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the o-enerality o£ literary produdions teem with the moil eccentric 



and monflrous opinions. 



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OF VARI' 

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Velut cegrl f omnia y 'vance 



Finguntiir fi)ecics. 



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Some therefore divide mankind according 



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fpecies -, others, infl;ead of being contented with bringing all 



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men 



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kindred, choofe 



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to ouran-outangs, a kind of well known apes from the Eafl-In- 

 dies.* This certainly enlarges the fubjed, and renders the dif 

 cuffion more intricate, and the arguments more varied and diffi- 



cult. 



I could eafily appeal to common i^v^i^y and to reafon as the great 



charadteriflic, exclulive privileges of mankind, which are not found 

 in any of the quadrupeds, though fome "of them are mifreprefented 

 as being rational in an eminent degree y I could from the very help- 

 lefs and defencelefs ftate of children,, v/hen they are firfl born, from, 

 the long duration of that ftate, from the want of inftindt, or connate 

 faculty of defending themfelves again external injuries, or of find- 



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and choofing falubrious 



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bod, &c. &c. infer, that man was 



orio-inally intended for a being living in fociety, who fhould be 



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taken care of and educated by others, and who has therefore received 



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* The author of the Origin and Trogrefs of Language, v. i. p. 289, %s : The oiir?.n. 

 outangs are proved to be of our fpecies by marks of humanity, that I thinkj are inconteilahle : 

 and likewifc p. 175. 



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