Had the upper part to the middle been of human shape, and all below swine, had it been murder to destroy it?
Or must the bishop have been consulted, whether it were man enough to be admitted to the font or no?
As I have been told it happened in France some years since, in somewhat a like case.

So uncertain are the boundaries of species of animals to us, who have no other measures than the complex ideas of our own collecting: and so far are we from certainly knowing what a MAN is; though perhaps it will be judged great ignorance to make any doubt about it.

And yet I think I may say, that the certain boundaries of that species are so far from being determined, and the precise number of simple ideas which make the nominal essence so far from being settles and perfectly known, that very material doubts may still arise about it.

And I imagine none of the definitions of the word MAN which we yet have, nor descriptios of that sort of animal, are so perfect and exact as to satisfy a considerate inquisitive person; much less to obtain a general consent, and to be that which men would everywhere stick by, in the decision of cases, and determining of life and death, baptism or no baptism, in productions that mights happen.
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But not so arbitrary as Mixed Modes.
But though these nominal essences of substances are made by the mind, they are not yet made so arbitrarily as those of mixed modes.