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the human frame : the Arctic Highlander of Greenland's icy regions, 

 the more placid picture of untutored intellect and atheism"*; and the 

 savages of Fegee, New Zealand, and their brethren AntJirophagi, 

 who people the host of islands to the east of Australasia, the parallel 

 of barbarian intelligence, ferocity, and passions He will go further 

 and reflect on the manners of those isolated beings of mankind whom 

 accidental misfortunes have condemned to live from infancy the 

 associates of brutes J, and he will then behold in the higher orders of the 

 Simia tribe many analogies that approach quite as nearly to the human 

 frame as the pride of the human race would wish to allow. It has 

 been ordained that man should lift his head in exalted eminence and 



* Ross's Voyage of Discovery in search of the North West Passage. 

 Vide Arctic Highlands of Baffin's Bay, chap. vii. 



t Cook's Voyages. Entrecasteau's Voyage in search of La Peyronse, 



&c. 



X Some well authenticated instances of this kind are on record, and 

 these prove distinctly that the human race nurtured from infancy among 

 beasts, walk not erect, but on the hands as well as feet, become hairy, and 

 have not the power of speech, uttering only certain simple sounds more or 

 less resembling those of the animals among whom they have been reared. 

 Linnaeus has collected several instances of this kind in support of his 

 doctrine, that ' man varies by culture.' A youth was found among a horde of 

 wolves in Hesse, in the year 1544 ; another among bears in Lithuania, in 

 1661. From the observation of Tulipius, it appears that a boy was found 

 wild among sheep in Ireland ; Camerarius speaks of one discovered among 

 oxen, and in 1724, another in the woods of Hanover. A wild girl in Tran- 

 sylvania in 1717, and another in Campania in 1731. It has been also found 

 that almost every attempt to reclaim those miserable beings from a state of 

 wildness have failed: their ferine habits imbibed from infancy appeared 

 most natural to them, and in some instances in despite of every caulion to 

 prevent it, they have found means to escape and return to their brute 

 associates. Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. 12. T. 1. p. 28. — Amoen. Acad. T. 6. 

 j>. 65. — Boerhaav. ^c. 



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