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 Horizon of a few Paces Extent, did not at once point out the Nature and Limits of his Ideas. I could only form vague, and almot imaginary, Conjectures on this Subject. Comparative Anatomy has not as yet been ufficiently improved; neither have the Obervations of Natural Philoophy been ufficiently acertained, to etablih upon uch Foundations the Bais of a olid Sytem. For this Reaon, without having recoure to the upernatural Informations with which we have been favoured on this Head, or paying any Attention to the Changes, that mut have happened in the Conformation of the interior and exterior Parts of Man's Body, in proportion as he applied his Members to new Purpoes, and took to new Aliments, I hall uppoe his Conformation to have always been, what we now behold it; that he always walked on two Feet, made the ame ue of his Hands that we do of ours, extended his looks over the whole