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II. FACULTIES OF MAN AND BKUTES COMPARED. ( 2. ) 281 and, accordingly, they form only a fugitive society before the human species. 3d, Monkeys being frugivorous, have fewer wants, and therefore less invention than man. 4th, Their life is shorter ; and, finally, The organical disposition of their bodies keeps them, like children, in perpetual motion, even after their desires are satisfied. In consequence of this last circumstance they are not liable to ennui ; which ought to be considered (as I ...shall prove afterwards) as one of the principles to which the human mind owes its improvement. " By combining, " he adds, " all these differences between the nature of man and of beasts, we may understand why sensi- bility and memory, though faculties common to man and other animals, are, in the latter, only sterile qualities. " 1 It is not a little surprising that, in this theory, Helvetius takes no notice of the want of language in the lower animals, a faculty without which the multiplication of individuals could contribute nothing to the improvement of the species.
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