A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients
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914. ] [Footnote C: Sir _Thomas Brown_'s _Pseudodoxia_, or, _Enquiries intoVulgar Errors_, lib. 4. Cap. 11. ] I do not here find _Aristotle_ asserting or confirming any thing of thefabulous Narrations that had been made about the _Pygmies_. He does notsay that they were [Greek: andres], or [Greek: anthropoi mikroi], or[Greek: melanes]; he only calls them [Greek: pygmaioi]. And discoursing ofthe _Pygmies_ in a place, where he is only treating about _Brutes_, 'tisreasonable to think, that he look...ed upon them only as such. _This is theplace where the_ Pygmies _are; this is no fable, _ saith Aristotle, as 'tisthat they are a Dwarfish Race of Men; that they speak the _Indian_Language; that they are excellent Archers; that they are very Just; andabundance of other Things that are fabulously reported of them; andbecause he thought them _Fables_, he does not take the least notice ofthem, but only saith, _This is no Fable, but a Truth, that about the Lakesof_ Nile such _Animals_, as are called _Pygmies_, do live.
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914. ] [Footnote C: Sir _Thomas Brown_'s _Pseudodoxia_, or, _Enquiries intoVulgar Errors_, lib. 4. Cap. 11. ] I do not here find _Aristotle_ asserting or confirming any thing of thefabulous Narrations that had been made about the _Pygmies_. He does notsay that they were [Greek: andres], or [Greek: anthropoi mikroi], or[Greek: melanes]; he only calls them [Greek: pygmaioi]. And discoursing ofthe _Pygmies_ in a place, where he is only treating about _Brutes_, 'tisreasonable to think, that he look...ed upon them only as such. _This is theplace where the_ Pygmies _are; this is no fable, _ saith Aristotle, as 'tisthat they are a Dwarfish Race of Men; that they speak the _Indian_Language; that they are excellent Archers; that they are very Just; andabundance of other Things that are fabulously reported of them; andbecause he thought them _Fables_, he does not take the least notice ofthem, but only saith, _This is no Fable, but a Truth, that about the Lakesof_ Nile such _Animals_, as are called _Pygmies_, do live.
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