MAN. 



The brain of man is relatively the largest among all the 

 Mammalia, and absolutely larger than that of any other 

 animal excepting that of the elephant "and the whale. 

 And of all animals man exhibits the largest facial angle.* 



FIG. OS. 



FIG. GO. 



Illustrating the Facial angle of a Negro, a Caucasian, and an Orang-outang. 



His face is a model of beauty, and is endowed with a 

 greater power of expression than is to be found in any 

 other animal. Man alone has the power of true speech. 

 Even physically considered, he is the highest possible ex- 

 pression of a vertebrate. 



But Man is the highest representative of the Animal 

 Kingdom, not only on account of his superior form and 

 higher physical 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 

 appreciate the wonderful and sublime harmonies of the 

 material and moral world, and his own relations to the 

 Author of Nature and of Revelation. 



*If a straight line be tlrawn from near the opening of the external ear 

 to the base of the nose, and if this line be intersected by another straight 

 line drawn from the most prominent part of the forehead to the most 

 prominent part of the upper jaw, the angle thus formed is called the facial 

 angle. In the Dog the facial angle is about 20; in the highest Monkeys or 

 Apes, about 40 ; in Negroes, 65 to 70 : in the White race, 75 to 90 or 95. 



