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VERTEBRATES : MAMMALS. 



Skeleton of Man. 

 cv, cervical vertebrae; sc cl, scapula and cla- 



carpus; ///, phalanges ; fe, femur; t, tibia;/ 

 fibula ; is, tarsus ; mi, metatarsus ; ps, phalanges. 



his whole organization 

 is adapted to that atti- 

 tude. His brain is the 

 largest in the Animal 

 Kingdom, excepting on- 

 ly that of the elephant 

 and of the whale, and 

 in its organization is 

 far superior to that of 

 any other animal. His 

 face is a model of beau- 

 ty, and endowed with a 

 wonderful power of ex- 

 pression. The hand of 

 man is superior in its 

 structure and in its func- 

 tions to the correspond- 

 ing member of any oth- 

 er animal. Man alone 

 truly speaks a language. 

 Even physically consid- 

 ered, he is the highest 

 possible expression of a 

 vertebrate. But Man is 

 the highest represent- 

 ative of the Animal 

 Kingdom, not only on 



aCCOUllt of hlS Superior 

 r , . . . , 



form and higher phys- 



ical organization, but, above all, on account of those high 

 mental and spiritual endowments which belong to him 

 alone, and which enable him to understand and appre- 

 ciate the wonderful and sublime harmonies of the ma- 

 terial and moral world, and his own relations to the 

 Author of Nature and of Revelation. 



