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Essays and Miscellanies

CHAPTER XX
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This is manifested in apes and dogs, which have inarticulate voice but not speech.

Diogenes, that this sort of animals are partakers of intelligence and air, but by reason of the density in some parts of them, and by the superfluity of moisture in others, they neither enjoy understanding nor sense; but they are affected as madmen are, the commanding rational part being defectuous and injured..


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