The HOMUNCULUS, Sir, in however low and ludicrous a light he may appear, in this age of levity, to the eye of folly or prejudice; --to the eye of reason in scientifick research, he stands confess'd--a BEING guarded and circumscribed with rights. ----The minutest philosophers, who, by the bye, have the most enlarged understandings (their souls being inversely as their enquiries), shew us incontestably, that the HOMUNCULUS is created by the same hand, --engender'd in the same course of nature, --endow'd with the same locomotive powers and faculties with us: --That he consists as we do, of skin, hair, fat, flesh, veins, arteries, ligaments, nerves, cartilages, bones, marrow, brains, glands, genitals, humours, and articulations; --is a Being of as much activity, --and, in all senses of the word, as much and as truly our fellow-creature as my Lord Chancellor of _England_. --He may be benefited, --he may be injured, --he may obtain redress; --in a word, he has all the claims and rights of humanity, which _Tully_, _Puffendorf_, or the best ethick writers allow to arise out of that state and relation.

The Homunculus, Sir, however ludicrous he may appear to the eye of folly or prejudice; - to the eye of scientific reason, he is a Being with rights. Philosophers show us that the Homunculus consists as we do, of skin, hair, fat, flesh, veins, arteries, nerves, bones, marrow, brains, glands, genitals and humours; - that he is as truly our fellow-creature as the Lord Chancellor of England. In a word, he has all the rights of humanity, as laid down by Tully, Pullendorf and the best ethic writers.
