A26976:347
Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits.…
Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits. Two discourses, one in a letter to an unknown doubter, the other in a reply to Dr. Henry Moore's Animadversions on a private letter to him, which he published in his second edition of Mr. Joseph Glanvil's Sadducismus triumphatus, or, History of apparitions by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simons, 1682
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§. 25. Add page 6. It's well known, That the Natives in New England, the most barbarous Abassines, Gallanes, &c. in Ethiopia, have as good natural Capacities as the Europeans. So far are they from being but like Apes and Monkeys; if they be not Idiots, or mad, they sometime shame learned men in their words and deeds. I have known those that have been so coarsely clad, and so clownishly bred, even as to Speech, Looks and Carriages, that Gentlemen and Scholars, at the first congress, have esteemed them much according to your description, when in Discourse they have proved more ingenious than they. And if improvement can bring them to Arts, the Faculty was there before. When will you show us an Ape or a Monkey, that was ever brought ⟨p. 47⟩to the Acts or Habits before mentioned of Men? Yea, of those that were born deaf and dumb?
§. 25. Add page 6. It's well known, That the Natives in New England, the most barbarous Abassines, Gallanes, &c. in Ethicpia, have as good natural Capacities as the Europeans. So far are they from being but like Apes and Monkeys; if they be not Ideots, or mad, they sometime shame learned men in their words and deeds. I have known those that have been so coursly clad, and so clownishly bred, even as to Speech, Looks and Carriages, that Gentlemen and Scholars, at the first congress, have esteemed them much according to your description, when in Discourse they have proved more ingenious than they. And if improvement can bring them to Arts, the Faculty was there before. When will you shew us an Ape or a Monkey, that was ever brought ⟨p. 47⟩to the Acts or Habits before mentioned of Men? Yea, of those that were born deaf and dumb?
§. 26. Your mistake of Adam's cas•• and Solomon's words, is so gross, that I will not confute it, lest the description of it offend you.