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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![together, the moft advantageously organize’d of any.* I fee him fatisfying his thirft at the firft brook in his way; finding his bed at the foot of the fame tree, which afforded him a repaft, and, _ behold! all his wants are fupply’d.... Had _ Nature,” he fays, ‘* deftine’d man to be healthy, i could, allmoft, venture to declare ‘that a flate of reflection is a ftate contrary to Nature, and that a thinking man is a deprave’d animal .,. Be the origin,’’ he obferves, ‘* of language and that of fociety [both which he has ablely and fuccefsfully explain’d] as they may, it may be, at leaft, infer’d, from the little care which Na- _ ture hath takeén to asfemble mankind by mutual wants, and io facilitate the ufe of fpeech, that fhe has contributeéd few preparations to their fociability, and has lent as little asfistance to the pains they have takeen in the formation of f{o- cietys. It is imposfible, in fat, to conceive why, in a ftate of nature, one man fhould ftand more in need of the asfistance of another, than a monkey or a wolf of the asfistance of another animal of the fame kind... . I know,” he pro- ceeds, “ it is incesfantly repeated, that man * His organization feems to differ very little, if at all, from that of the ourang-outang, which all he here fays fuits juft as’ wel, as it does man in a fate of nature; if, in fact they be not one and the fame.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
