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 But there are, I imagine, much tronger Reaons to affirm that Man is a Biped. In the firt Place, uppoing it could be demontrated that, tho' originally formed otherwie, he might nevertheles become in Time what he now is, would this not be enough to make us conclude that it really happened o? For, after hewing the Poibility of thee Changes, it would be till neceary, in order to etablih them, to hew at leat ome Probability of their having really happened. Moreover, allowing that Man's Arms might have erved him as Legs in cae of Neceity, it is the only Obervation favourable to this Sytem, whereas there are many others which contradict it. The principal are, that the Manner, in which the Head of Man is fixed to his Body, intead of giving his Eyes an horizontal Direction, uch as all other Animals have it, and uch as he himelf has it when walking upright, would have fixed them directly upon the Earth, a Situation very unfavourable to the Preervation of Individuals; that the Tail, which Nature has not given him, and which he has no Occaion for in walking,