that the Monkey does not belong to the Human Species, not only becauſe he wants the Faculty of Speech, but above all becauſe his Species has not the Faculty of improving, which is the ſpecifick Characteriſtic of the Human Species. But it does not appear that the ſame Experiments have been made with the Pongos and the Orang-Outang carefully enough to afford the ſame Concluſion. There is however a Method by which, if the Orang-Outang or ſuch other Animals were of the Human Species, the moſt illiterate Obſervers might make themſelves ſure of it; but beſides that a ſingle Generation would not be ſufficient for ſuch an Experiment; it muſt be conſidered as impracticable, becauſe it is neceſſary that what is now no more than a Suppoſition ſhould be proved a Fact, before the Experiment requiſite to aſcertain the Reality of it could be innocently made.
Haſty Concluſions, and ſuch as are not the Fruits of a well-enlightened Reaſon, are apt to run to great Lengths. Our Voyagers make Beaſts under the Name of Pongos, Mandrills, and Orang-Outang, of the very Beings,
