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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ANATOMY OF THE EXTERNAL FORMS OF MAN. CHAPTER I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON MAN, AND ON THB MODIFICATIONS HE UNDERGOES THROUGH MORAL AND PHYSICAL INFLUENCES TEMPERAMENTS, RACES. The gift of an intelligence superior to that of all other animals leaves man nothing to envy them on the score of structure. Hence, I do not sympathize with those misanthropic philosophers, who have drawn a parallel between man and other animals in favour of the latter. According to them, the finest gifts of nature have been denied to man. The undulating forms, the slender, yet agile limbs, at times robust and of matchless strength; the gorgeous display of colours with which nature has decorated the animal kingdom; these, she has denied to the human species. In lieu of such qualities, unbefitting his kind, she has bestowed on him a superiorintelligence, by means of which he overcomes all other animals, thus carrying out the great destinies of his race. The admirable harmony of the human forms, cannot, for an instant, be mistaken or overlooked; man's position on the soil, his walk, his gesture, the expression of his countenance, pourtraying his sensations, feelings and intellectual energy; all are in harmony with his physical organization. The reverie of those who imagined man to have exhibited a quadruped form at first, altered into the biped by civilization alone, cannot be admitted even as a theory; it is a dream at variance with all anatomy and physiology. A hasty glance at man's whole structure proves this. The lower extremities form an ever varying base of sustentation equal to every change of position and emergency; at times extended' and ample, at others narrow and confined; but always equal to the weight to be sustained. These limbs, elongated and articulated, moul...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459005310
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 82
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459005317
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 163 gr


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