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On vegetable ſubſtances the ſtomach has nothing to do, but to perfect the order of nature by bringing the vegetable to the next ſtage or animalization.
(5.) "I am perſuaded that all nations at one time or other have been cannibals, and that men, as ſoon as they became animals of prey, which I have ſaid they were not originally, fed upon thoſe of their own kind as well as upon other animals."—Monboddo on Language, vol. i. p. 228.
(6.) "It is an unqueſtionable fact, that all animals which have but one ſtomach and ſhort inteſtines, like men, dogs, wolves, lions, &c. are carnivorous."
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