‘I have heard the natives say, he can throw down a palm-tree, by his amazing strength, to come at the wine.’—_Letter of a Bristol Merchant in a note to the Origin and Progress of Language_, book ii. chap. 4. Footnote 30: See Louvet’s _Récit de mes Périls_. Footnote 31: Rousseau, _Émile_, liv. 5. Footnote 32: ‘L’issue aucthorise souvent une tres-inepte conduitte. Nostre entremise n’est quasy qu’une routine, et plus communement consideration d’usage et d’exemple que de raison.... L’heur et le malheur sont à mon gré deux souveraines puissances. C’est imprudence d’estimer que l’humaine prudence puisse remplir le roolle de la fortune. Et vaine est l’entreprinse de celuy qui presume d’embrasser et causes et consequences, et meiner par la main le progrez de son faict.... Qu’on reguarde qui sont les plus puissans aux villes, et qui font mieulx leurs besongnes, on trouvera ordinairement que ce sont les moins habiles.... Nous attribuons les effects de leur bonne fortune à leur prudence.... Parquoy je dy bien, en toutes façons, que les evenements sont maigres tesmoings de nostre prix et capacité.’—MONTAIGNE, liv. iii. chap. 8. Footnote 33: Ecclesiastes, chap. iv. Footnote 34: _Origin and Progress of Language_, book ii. chap. 4. Footnote 35: ‘I have endeavoured to support the ancient definition of man, and to show that it belongs to the oran outang, though he have not the use of speech. And indeed it appears surprising to me that any man, pretending to be a philosopher, should not be satisfied with the expression of intelligence in the most useful way for the purposes of life; I mean by actions; but should require likewise the expression of them, by those signs of arbitrary institution we call _words_, before they will allow an animal to deserve the name of _man_. Suppose that, upon inquiry, it should be found that the oran outangs have not only invented the art of building huts, and of attacking and defending with sticks, _but also have contrived a way of communicating to the absent, and recording their ideas by the method of painting or drawing_, as is practised by many barbarous nations (and the supposition is not at all impossible, or even improbable); and suppose they should have contrived some form of government, and should elect kings or rulers, which is possible, and, according to the information of the Bristol merchant above mentioned, is reported to be actually the case, what would Mr. Buffon then say? Must they still be accounted brutes, because they have not yet fallen upon the method of communication by articulate sounds?’—_Origin and Progress of Language_, book ii. chap. 4. Footnote 36: Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey.’ Footnote 37: The _Iliad_. Footnote 38: The _Odyssey_. Footnote 39: The _Prometheus_ of Aeschylus. Footnote 40: The _Philoctetes_ of Sophocles. Footnote 41: The _Hippolytus_ of Euripides. Footnote 42: