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have no Common Receptacle for the Digefting the 
Food received, or >W for carrying off* the Recrements : 
But in ail, even the ioweft degree of Animril Life, we 
may obferve a Stomach and Intefi'mes ^ even where we 
cannot perceive the ieaft Formation of any Orgatioi the 
Soijcs^ iinlefs that common one of Ta&us 5 as in an 
Ojfier, Where alfo wc may obferve a fenfible Mpifcular 
Motion^ or Contraftion ^ though it would be difEcuit 
to alTign what 'Part fhould be reckoned the Brrdn^ or 
Medulk Spinalis^ from whence the Nerves arife that 
give it fb ftrong a motion. 
Now this Dh&us being fo Principal a Fart in an Ani- 
malj and its TJfe being for the Receiving and Digefting 
the Food^ and Deftributing the Chjle 5 ns reafonable to 
fuppofe, that, according to the difference of the Food^ 
the ftrufture of the Organ fhould be alfo Different 5 or, 
where the Organ was the fame, there the Vfe was the 
fame too, for the Pveceiving, Digefting and DePiributing 
the fame fort of Food* Man therefore having thefe 
Parts formed, not like Carnivorous Animals, as you 
well obferve 5 but more refembling thofe that live on 
Herbs, R.oots, Fruits, &€. it may feem reafonable to 
conclude, that ISiature never defigned him to live on 
Flefh 2^ But, that the Wantonnefs of his Appetite, and 
a depraved cuftome, had inured him to it. For, as 
Gajjendus remarks in the fame Fpiftle I have fo often 
quoted, ( viz, Epifi. Jo. Bapt, Helmont, operum Tom. 6. 
19. 3 Cuftome may make that feem Natural to us, 
■which Nature never intended. As he ioftances in a 
Lam^ that was bred on Ship-board, which retufed the 
green Pafture of the Fields, for the Diet it was former- 
ly- ufed to. And I have often feen here in London (and 
it being a thing fo unufual, I take leave to mention it) 
a Korfe^ that, with a great deal of pleaftire, would eaC 
Ojjfiers,, fcranching them, ihell and all, between his 
Teethj, and fvvailowing them 5 And til's he took to by 
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