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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![when he-dye’d, yet he was ftronger than any man,’* _ | | | “1 myfelf,” fays lord Monboddo, ‘* faw at Paris one of thefe [ouran-outangs ], whofe kin was ftuf'd...He had exactly the fhape and fea- tures of a man; and particularly i was inform’d that he had organs of pronunciation as perfect as we have. He live’d feveral years at Verfailles, and dye’d by drinking fpirits. He had as much of the underflanding of a man as could be ex- pected from his education, and perform’d many little officeés to the lady with whom he live’d; but never learn’d , to fpeak. I was wel inform’d too,” ads his lordfhip, ‘* of one of them belong- ing toa French gentleman in India, who ule’d to go to market for him, but was likewife mute.” + | * Voyage to Borneo, 1718, p. 37. This young outang dis- play’d more intelligence, and even posfefs’d much more ftrength, at the age of twelve months, than a buman being (as he is call’d) was ever known to do at the age of twelve years, quoteing a pasfage from Rousfeau, who rejects “ with great contempt, the notion of thofe who think that fpeech. is natural to man,” his lordfhip obferves : “‘ Now if we get over that prejudice, and do net infift that other arts of life, which the ouran-outangs want, are, likewife, natural to a it is imposfible we can refufe them the appellation of men.’ He, Ps](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
