MAN. 665 



The mental qualities which are so characteristic of the genus 

 Homo have led many naturahsts to create a special family 

 {Anthro-pidae) or even order [Bimana) for its reception. But 

 in this work we are concerned with man from the standpoint 

 of morphology, and, in assigning him his position in the 

 system, we can only take into consideration the facts of his 

 bodily structure, as we have done in the case of other animals. 

 If psychical characters were taken into account in Zoology, 

 the whole of classification would be thro^wTi into confusion, 

 and in the case of man how should we deHne the position to 

 be assigned to him ? For 



What a piece of icork is a man! Hov) noble in reason/ 

 how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving how express 

 and admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in appre- 

 hension how like a god ! 



and again 



Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and 

 hast crowned him loith glory and honour. 



End of Vol II. 



