Page:A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind (IA discourseuponori00rous).pdf/82

Horizon of a few Paces Extent, did not at once point out the Nature and Limits of his Ideas. I could only form vague, and almoſt imaginary, Conjectures on this Subject. Comparative Anatomy has not as yet been ſufficiently improved; neither have the Obſervations of Natural Philoſophy been ſufficiently aſcertained, to eſtabliſh upon ſuch Foundations the Baſis of a ſolid Syſtem. For this Reaſon, without having recourſe to the ſupernatural Informations with which we have been favoured on this Head, or paying any Attention to the Changes, that muſt have happened in the Conformation of the interior and exterior Parts of Man's Body, in proportion as he applied his Members to new Purpoſes, and took to new Aliments, I ſhall ſuppoſe his Conformation to have always been, what we now behold it; that he always walked on two Feet, made the ſame uſe of his Hands that we do of ours, extended his looks over the whole