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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![pacity of man has hardly any limitation. His empire over the other animals which inhabit this But foon improve’d, with clubs they bolder fought, \ And various arms, which fad experience wrought, Til words, to fix the wandering voice, were found; ~ And names imprefs’d a meaning upon found.”’* € Men,” according to Vitruvius, ‘ by old custom, were ’ born, like wild beafts, in forefts, caves and woods, and, wild food being eaten, they fpent their life, In a certain congrefs of men [whom they had invitecd together by figns to behold a fire which had been raife’d by accident and kept up by fkil] © when they would have utter’d, otherwife, founds out of their breath, by dayly custom, they made words, fuch as might hap en to be alloted to them by nature: afterward, by figni- - fying things more frequently in ufe, fortuitously, began to {peak : fo that they procreateed ees amongft theme felves.”+ | : Tf there were any language natural to man, all men would fpeak it, or at leaft they would have a great propenfity and great dispofitions to fpeak it, [and] many foot-fteps of it would remain among the different people of the world. Chil- dren that were abandon’d and expofe’d or deaf would fpeak this language; all which is contrary to experience. Let any one leave achild without talking to it and it wil never fpeak any language, either known or unknown. Melablin Echebas, king of Indostan, having appointed a certain, child to be brought up at’a distance from the company of men, the child | * Horace, Satires, B,1, S. 3. ( Francis.) 4 Of architecture, B.2,C. 1.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
