An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![forefts and mountains of Afia or Africa at the prefent day, at leaft, an animal of the fame family, and very nearly refembleing it. The formation, the anatomy, the ftrength, the general appear- ance, of the two animals, are much the fame, or would, at leaft, be fo in a ftate of nature. Each would make the like ufe of its hands and feet ; for it can be prove’d, not onely, that man, in fuch a ftate, would frequently make ufe of his hands for feet, and walk upon all-four; but, allfo, that the ourang-outang frequently ftands and walks, ere@, like a civilize’d man, and ° oceafionally ufees a itaf. Their food, their habits, their employments, and mode of life, would, likewife, be precifely, or nearly fimilar ; and, in a word, without depriveing man of his preeminent fituation at the head of his. clafs, the refembleance between him and the ourang-ou- tang is too firong to deny that they are, at' leaft, distinct fpecies of one and the fame genus.* of La Peroufe), i, 137. The natives of New Holland are cover’d with vermin. We admire’d the patience of a mother, who, like moft of the blacks, crufh’d thefe filthy infeéts be- tween her teeth, and then fwallow’d them. It is to be re- mark’d that apes have the fame custom [which is wel known to the Spanifh virgins, particularly toward their fweethearts]. * See doctor Tyfons Anatomy of a Pygmie, p.g2, &c.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
