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apes and monkies accidentally walk ered ; it is not, however, natural causes 

 to them, and they prefer crawling on all fours j and' though even 

 men in a wild ftate, have accuftomed themfelves to walk on all fours 

 it has been obferved, that this habit caufed a preternatural tumour 



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of the hypochondria. * But I fliould be obliged to repeat and to 

 tranfcribe the arguments, fo ably fet forth by the mofl learned men, 

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are known- by the iludious, neverthelefs re^ 

 to the pretenders of learning, as if they never 

 had been publifhed :- for it is the fate of fcience to be only ikimmed 

 hy the witty faihionable writers, but neverto be thoroughly iludied 

 and meditated : I cannot therefore enter into any ferious argu- 

 mentation v/ith the patrons and^ advocates of the long exploded opi- 

 nion, that monkies are of the fame fpecies with mankind. 



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