ANATOMY. 



physiological necessity, inasmuch as the skeleton and 

 motor powers are so arranged and displayed that 

 the erect position is the easiest to maintain. But 

 it is the educated brain of man which lends to him 

 his conceded importance. The physique of a six- 

 foot savage may challenge our admiration, but we 

 more admire the intellectual powers of a Bismarck or 

 a Gladstone. The rude men of primitive races were 

 stalwart, yet through a lack of efficient weapons their 

 numbers were kept down by the prowess and ferocity 

 of wild beasts. Cultivated man, skilled in the arts, is 

 more than a match for savages and ferocious animals. 

 An ounce bullet is sent through the head or heart of 

 the ponderous and powerful beasts, and the victims fall 

 as impotent as a pheasant or a hare. And strangest 

 of all is that we know very little about the brain 

 which gives man his pronounced superiority over the 

 creatures which perish by the touch of his hand. To 

 know ourselves better and better, we must compare 

 our cerebral development with the brains of those ani- 

 mals which preceded us. . . ; . 



