CHAP. VI.] MAN. 169 



power which many animals, especially horses, possess of moving or 

 twitching the skin; and this is effected by the panniculus carnosus. 

 Eemnants of this muscle in an efficient state are found in various parts 

 of our bodies ; for: instance, on the forehead, by which the eyebrows 

 are raised. The platysma myoides, which is well developed on the neck, 

 belongs to this system, but cannot voluntarily be brought into action. 

 Professor Turner, of Edinburgh, has occasionally detected, as he 

 informs me, muscular fasciculi in five different situations, namely, in 

 the axillae, near the scapulas, &c., all of which must be referred to the 

 system of the panniculus. He has also shown that the musculws 

 sternalis or ste- mlis brutorum, which is not an extension of the rectus 

 abdominalis, but is closely allied to the panniculus, occurred in the 

 proportion of about 3 per cent, in upwards of 600 bodies.&quot; Vol. i. 

 p. 19. 



Mr. Darwin brings forward, amongst other things, an 

 observation of Mr. Woollier, the sculptor, as to a small pro 

 jection of the helix or outermost fold of the human ear, 

 which projection, Mr. Darwin says, &quot; we may safely con 

 clude&quot; to be &quot;a vestige of formerly pointed ears which 

 occasionally reappears in man&quot; (vol. i. p. 23). Very many 

 other interesting points are noted which it would be super 

 fluous here to recapitulate. 



It would be superfluous because, however anatomically 

 interesting, they are really beside the question. Super . 

 They may, indeed, and they probably will produce M^D^WUI S 

 a considerable effect on readers who are not anato- thSe^u^&quot; 

 mists, but in fact the whole and sole result is to jecm- 

 show that man is an animal. That he is such is denied by 

 no one, but has been taught and accepted since the time 

 of Aristotle. I remember on one occasion meeting at a 

 dinner-table a clever medical man of materialistic views. 

 He strongly impressed the minds of some laymen present 

 by an elaborate statement of the mental phenomena follow 

 ing upon different injuries, or abnormal or diseased conditions 

 of different parts of the brain, until one of the number re 

 marked as a climax, &quot; Yes ; and when the brain is entirely 

 removed, the mental phenomena cease altogether&quot; the 

 previous observations having only brought out vividly what 

 no one denied, viz., that during this life a certain integrity 



