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 himelf properly upon his Feet. It was the ame thing with the Child, who was found in 1694 in the Forets of Lithuania and lived among Bears. He did not hew, ays Monieur de Condillac, the leat Mark of Reaon, walked upon Hands and Feet, had no Language but ome uncouth Sounds, which had nothing common with thoe of other Men. The little Hanoverian Savage, which was brought everal Years ago to the Court of England, had all the Difficulty in the World to bring himelf to walk upon his Legs: And in 1719 two other Savages were found in the Pyrenean Mountains running about them in the Manner of Quadrupeds. As to the Objection, that by walking upon our Hands we hould loe the Ue of them in many other Repects in which they prove o erviceable to us; not to init on the Practice of Monkeys, by which it is evident that the Hand may be very well employed both ways, this Argument could only prove, that Man may give his Members a more ueful Detination than that aigned them by Nature, and not that Nature has detined Man to walk otherwie than he herelf teaches him to walk.