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fame, a.ndto give his judgment thereof, he was plcafed to make a 
r^Liini in Latin, which for want of room here, we muft refer to ano- 
ther opportunity. 
VI. P H ILOSOP HV S AVTOBIDACTVS, exhiihw 
in JSpifiala , ex Arabic a in Lapinam Lingaam verf^ at Edvardo 
Pocokio, Oxonii 1671, in 
'J^Hi^ Book being tranflated out of a fair Arabic^, Manufcript in the 
Bodleian Library into Latine by the care of the Learned T>T,P9cock^ 
and printed in both the Languages together, is a very ingenious 
piece. and,by the teftimony of the skilful, elegant in the Original, 
and an excellent ftyleThedefign is to (hew, How from the Contem- 
plation of things here below, Man by the right ufeof his Reafon may 
raife himfelf unto the knowledge of higher things j which is here 
perform^ by a Faigned Hiflory of an Infant expofeJ, he knows not 
how, on an Tfland not inhabited where he was nurfed up by a C74^e/ 
(or kind of wild Dear) and coming afterwards to years of know- 
ledge, did by his fmgle Ufe of Reafon and Experience (without any 
human converfe) attain the under/landing, firft of Common things, 
the neceffaries of human life ^ how to (hift among the Beads for his 
food,&c • 4:he ufe of cloaths, of weapons (to keep the beafts in order, 
who wer^ before too hard for him ^ ) then to the knowledge of Na- 
tural things, of Moral, of Divine, &c. And afterwards by an ac- 
cident coming to know that there were other men in the world bc- 
lide himfelf, and being removed out of hislfland to them, and having 
learned the Language, was found to cxcell their ftudied Philofo- 
phers. 
The whole defign handfomely laid, and ingcnioufly profecuted. 
The Epiftle written by Ahi faafar^ contemporaneous to Averr»es, who 
lived about 500 years ago .^ at which time, it fcems, it was already 
known, that the Countries in the T^^m^/ Zo;?^ were habitable, as ap- 
pears by the Preface of Dr. Pocock^ to the Reader* 
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