26 NATURAL HISTORY. 



is by no means perfectly erect, and it goes on all-fours 

 except when compelled to do otherwise by its keeper. 



32. There is superiority also in beauty of form and 

 grace of movement. To make the comparison correctly, 

 take the most beautiful and graceful of animals, and place 

 them side by side with the most beautiful and graceful 

 of the human race. Look now at form in detail. Take, 

 for example, the upper extremity of man. Is there any 

 thing in the limb of any animal to compare with it in its 

 varied beauty of outline as it is placed in different posi- 

 tions ? Observe, too, its graceful movements, and con 

 trast their endless variety with the very limited grace of 

 the corresponding limb of the inferior animal. 



33. But in the face more than in any other part is seen 

 this superiority both in form and movement. And when 

 we look at the body as a whole, with its commanding 

 erectness, the varied grace of all its parts as it moves, 

 and its crowning head so full of the graces of expression, 

 we realize that the human body is the only one that is a 

 fit tenement of a soul made in the image of God. 



34. This leads me to say that really the grand distinc- 

 tion between man and other animals is in the mind rath- 

 er than in the body. He not only thinks more than any 

 other animals do, but much of his thinking is wholly dif- 

 ferent from theirs. Even the most thinking of them 

 know nothing about the difference between right and 

 wrong, or about God ; and you can not in any way teach 

 them any thing in relation to such subjects. 



35. As the mind of man is so superior to that of other 

 animals, it can use more machinery than theirs can, and 

 therefore more machinery is furnished it. For this rea- 

 son man has a much larger brain than any other animal 

 in proportion to the size of the body. The machinery of 

 the hand is furnished to him because his mind requires it 

 for the proper exercise of its powers on the world around. 

 It would do no good to furnish a horse or a dog with a 

 hand, for he would not know how to use it. Each ani- 



