418 On the Beauteful in the Grecian Statues. 
in the limbs adapted to motion, a lightness of 
bone, and firmness of muscle similar to what 
characterises these animals. And by parity of 
reason, the qualities of the ox or elephant, if 
slowness of motion united with great capacity of 
burthen had been designed to be his predominant 
character; or if a temperament of speed with 
burthen, then ..a ‘tempered union of the forms 
which distinguish the hare and the ox, as in the 
horse, might have been the character of the human 
form. But as each of these uses ina very limited 
degree, and subservient to many other higher uses; 
such as quickness of movement towards every 
part; the as sublimé to contemplate heaven as 
well as earth, and each with the greatest range ; 
exquisite sensibility, particularly in the hands, 
which are the instruments of mechanic operations ; 
and in fine, the unnumbered and varied uses, 
which the inventive and creating mind of man 
can meditate, were intended to constitute the 
character of man, we find therefore that a: form 
is assigned to him, which is adapted to all these 
uses, and to each in that degree in which it 
contributes to the concentered and harmonious 
utility of his whole being. But I mention not 
this, with any of the views of the naturalist or 
divine, but merely to shew that man can in some 
degree enter into the mind of his Creator, and, 
