The first man and his place in creation : considered on the principles of science and common sense from a Christian point of view : with an appendix on the Negro / by George Moore.

Date:
1866
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Credit: The first man and his place in creation : considered on the principles of science and common sense from a Christian point of view : with an appendix on the Negro / by George Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    a good anatomist to say, ' This is human.' Even the very blood-disk in man is moulded into shape by a power that makes it organically as much human as the man himself. It is characterised by vital qualities, form, proportion, action, as much as the rest of the body of which it constitutes an integral and living part; it is acted upon and acting altogether humanly in brain, lungs, and heart, as it rolls along its intricate and mazy channels. It gives and takes its life in a human manner, with a power of its own in relation to the air of heaven and the elements which form the body and regulate the very working of our thoughts. Eesemblances to the human form will, of course, necessarily arise in the anatomy of those animals which are endowed with arms and hands; the possession of these implies and requires certain other correspon- dencies, such as a mouth to be reached and served by the hand, and also the power of sitting at ease, with ability to stand more or less erect occasionally, because this ability is needed, in accommodation to the hand in reaching forth to seize any object, as is evinced by all those four-limbed animals that climb trees and gather fruit for the support of life. Since the ape and monkey tribes not only gather fruit, but depend for life on fruits that grow on the extremity of branches which would not sustain their weights, they are enabled by their long arms and adroit hands to accomplish what they need. But this they do the better by the addi- tional accommodation of handy feet that grasp like hands what they stand on. They naturally approxi-