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Since U,an therefore hath all manner of Tezth^ fit for 
preparation of all forts of Food^ before it be conveyed 
to the Stomach ^ I fhould rather think, that ^Nature did 
intend he fhould live upon all 5 or at leaft is fo Bounti . 
ful asnot to deny him any, or ftint him to one fort on- 
ly. So in like manner, fince the Organ here in Man, is 
fitly adapted for Digefting all forts of Food, I fhould 
rather incline to conclude, that therefore Nature intend- 
ed all forts for him : Which Goi Almighty allures us he 
did, in the Text you have quoted, Gen. 9. v. 3. Every 
moving thing that liveth /hall be meat for you^ even as the 
green Herb have I given you all things. 
But perhaps you may expeft I fliould give you fome 
Inftancesin Brutes, where it doth not hold, that all C^^r- 
nivorous Animals have no Colon or Cwcum^ though, as 
to Man, the cafe may be different. Now the tarigueya. 
or Opojpm (whofe Anatome I have given in Vhilofo^h. 
Tranjl No. 259) had a long Colon^ihou^ not cellulated, 
and a large Ccdcum^ that- received all the Forces as they 
pafs down 5 Yet tlis Animal feeds on Voultry and 
Birds. And I have a Male Opo/fum rrow by me, that 
feeds on nothing but Flt/h. On the other hand, the 
Hedge-hog or Urchin^ that hath no Colon or Ccecum, and 
therefore, by your rule, fhould be Carnivorous^ feeds on 
Roots^ Fruits, Herbs, &c. and not on hle/h. Hogs 
likewife, that have both a Colon and Ciecum, will feed 
upon Fle/h greedily enough, when they can meet with 
' it • though their ordinary Food be of another kind. 
And a Rat and Moufe, that have a large CtBcum^ but no 
Lolon, feed upon Bac$n, as well as Bread and Cheefe. 
But, if what JEHan tells us ( Hi ft. de Animal, lib. 17. 
cap.js^^. ) can be relied upon, you have an inftance in 
the Neat-kind alfo. For he affures us, Ayaar^-roi cTI a,^ 
So likewife in the fame Book, cap. ^5. he mentions 
Horfes and Sheep that fed upon Fi^. But thefe ftories. 
