44 MAMMALIA/ PRIMATES. Man. 



I. PRIMATES 



* 



Their fore teeth are wedee-like, intended for cut- 

 ting; thole in the upper jaw are parallel, and 

 four in number. 



They have two paps fituated on the bread, 



i. M A N.— H MO. 

 Know thy felf f . 



Sapient Man. — i. — H. Sapiens. 



Man feems a native of the countries within the Tropics, and dates were probably his 

 original food. He has, however, become accuftomed to the lels genial climes without 

 the Torrid Zone, and now fupports his exiftence by means of agriculture, adding ani* 

 mal food to that intended him by Nature. 



This is the only fpecies ; he is endowed with wifdom far fuperior to, or rather in 

 exclufion of, all other animals. He varies from climate, education, and* habits. Lin« 

 nasus enumerates the following varieties. 



Wild Men.— a.— H. Feri. 

 Walk on all fours, are dumb, and covered with hair \. 



1. A youth found in Lithuania, in 1761, refembling a bear v 



2. A youth found in Heffe, in 1544, refembling a wolf. 



* The name of this order may be tranflated Chiefs, as being the principal animals, becaufe it contains 

 Man, and thofe animals which refemble him, efpecially in the circumftances of the teeth and mammae, 

 or teats. — T. 



f This noted faying of Solon is the firfl ftep towards the attainment of true wifdom, and was for. 

 ynerly written, in letters of gold, on the temple of Diana. 



% Thefe inftances of wild men, and their fimilitudes. are partly to be attributed to impofture, and in 

 part to exaggeration. Moft probably idiots who had llrayed from their friends, and who refembled the 

 •above animals only in imitating their voices. — T. 



