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the embryo of reafon improvable by the various degrees of educa- 

 tion. It might be proved from the organs and the gift of fpeech in 

 men, who are alone capable of this language of reafon, that they 

 ought to be wholly diftinguifhed from all animals ; as every ipecies 

 of the brute creation is deflitute of the variety, power, and extent 

 of voice and articulation : and though endued with paffions, and 

 poiTeffing the advantages of a mechanical fenfation, are Grangers to 

 the exercife of reafon, the formation of ideas, the language of the 

 heart, and the refinement of moral fentiment.* I could have re- 

 courfe to the Hallers, the Hunters, the Daubentons, the Le Cats, 

 the Meckel s, the Campers, and all the great anatomifts of this and 

 former ages, and with them prove from the ftrudure of the brains 

 and from the fkulls, from the occipital hole, from the 

 movement, ftrudure and length of the cervical vertebra, from the 

 flrudure and fhortnefs of the pelvis, the breadth of the ilia, the 



connexion. 



narrownefs of the ifchia, from the form and flrudure of the acetabu- 

 lum, and the head of the femoral bones, from the ilrudure and con- 

 nexion of the mufculus gluteus with thofe of the leo-s, from the 

 whole compages and ftrudure of the feet and their parts, from the 

 number and ftrudure of our hands, and many other wonders of our 

 frame, that man is the only creature of the clafs which fuckle their 

 young ones, who is intended to walk ered : f for though, perhaps, 



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* Mr. Court de Qehlln^ Plan Geaeral du Monck Primitif, p. lo. 



t Blumenlach de generis humnni varletate natlva. Getting, ,7;6, 8.o. nnd //: Hunter, dc 



.eodem Areuniento. Edlnburg. 1776, 8vo, 



