LOVE S MEINIE. 



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Even what we have seen to-day * is more than appears 

 to have been noticed by the most careful painters of the 

 great schools ; and you will continually fancy that I am 

 inconsistent with myself in pressing you to learn, better 

 than they, the anatomy of birds, while I violently and 

 constantly urge you to refuse the knowledge of the anato- 

 my of men. But you will find, as my system developes 

 itself, that it is absolutely consistent throughout. I don't 



Fig. 9. 



mean, by telling you not to stud}^ human anatomy, that 

 you are not to know how many fingers and toes you have, 

 nor how 3'ou can grasp and walk with them ; and, simi- 



* Large and somewhat carefully painted diagrams were shown at the 

 lecture, which I cannot engrave but for my complete edition. 



