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confine ourselves to human matters, relating one supreme infamy, which is not to be found among the animals of the earth; because among these you will not find animals who eat their young, except when they are utterly foolish (and there are few indeed of such among them), and this occurs only among the beasts of prey, such as the lions, and leopards, panthers, lynxes, cats and the like, which sometimes feed on their young; but thou, besides thy children, dost devour thy father, thy mother, thy brother and thy friends ; and not satisfied with this, thou goest forth to hunt on the islands of others, seizing other men and these half naked . . . thou fattenest and chasest them down thy own throat. Now does not nature produce enough vegetables for thee to satisfy thyself? And if thou art not content with vegetables, canst thou not by a mixture of them make infinite compounds as Platina wrote, and other writers on food ?

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The description of man, including that of such creatures belonging almost to the same species, such as apes, monkeys and the like, of which there are many.

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The way of walking in man is similar in all cases to the universal way of walking in four-footed animals, because, just as they move their feet

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