natural Forces are not as yet developed nor our Members confirmed in Strength, concludes nothing; and I might as well affirm that Dogs are not made to walk, becauſe for ſome Days after their Birth they do no more than crawl. Nor are particular Facts of any great avail againſt the univerſal Practice of Mankind, even of thoſe Nations, which as they have no Communication with other Nations, cannot be ſuſpected of having copied after them. A Child deſerted in a Foreſt before he had Strength to walk, and ſuckled by ſome Beaſt, muſt have followed the Example of his Nurſe, and endeavoured to walk like her; Habit might have given him a Facility which he did not receive from Nature; and as a Man who has loſt his Hands, brings himſelf by Dint of Exerciſe to do with his Feet alone every thing he formerly did with his Hands, ſo ſuch deſerted Child will at length acquire a Facility of employing his Hands in the Work deſtined for his Feet.
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(4.) Leſt any of my Readers ſhould happen to be ſo little acquainted with natural Phi-loſophy
