An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.

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1802
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Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fize and ftrencth. Man, therefor, in a ftate of nature, was, if not the real ourang-outang of the Tyfons Anatomy of a Pigmie, p. 5, &c. Man, among other attempts at definition, has been denominated a Jaughing animal, Laughter, however, is not alltogether peculiar to the human fpecies. As mifter Barrow was afcending the pafs of Roode-Sand Kloef, the baboons, fays he, from their conceal’d dens, in the fides of the mountain, /augh'd, fcream’d, and utter’d fuch horrible noifeés, the whole time, that, to a ftranger, not knowing, from whence they proceeded, they exciteed no {mall degree of furprife, (Travels in Southern Africa, p.70). The Hottentots, fays captain Beeckman, are not, really, unlike monkeys or baboons in their gestures and postures, efpecially when they fit funing themfelves, as they often do in great num-. bers.— When they fpeak, they feem rather to cackle like hens or turkeys, than fpeak like men, (Voyage to Borneo, p. 187). *‘ The Basjesmans,” according to Barrow, (p..277), are amongft the uglyeft of all human beings. The flat nofe, high cheek-bones, prominent chin and concave vifage, par- take much of the apeifh character, which their keen eye, all- ways in motion, tends not to diminith,” (Travels in Southern Africa, p.2477).° The apes corre&t their young in the man- ner of good christians. I once, fays Labillardiere, witnefs'd a fingular fact, which fhews what authority thefe animals pos- fefs over their young. A large ape, that was follow’d by a very little one, thinking himfelf unobferve'd, took it up in one of its paws, and beat it for a confiderable fpace of time with the other. If the ape, he ads, knew how to proportion the punifhment to the offence, the cub muft have been very naughty, for he got a moft fevere beating (Voyage in fearck
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