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VERTEBRATES : MAMMALS. 



Fig - I3> 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 

 account of his superior 

 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. 



Skeleton of Man. 



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

 vicle ; A, humerus ; /z>, lumbar vertebrae ; /, pel- 

 vis ; , ulna ; r, radius ; c, carpus ; me, meta- 

 carpus ; ph, phalanges ; fe, femur ; t, tibia ; f, 

 fibula ; ts, tarsus ; mt, metatarsus ; /j, phalanges. 



