342 THE HUMAN FORM. 



p. 33S. 

 By virtue of the human form all the ages of thought reappear upon the scene 

 together; the mythologic and the scientific; both of them contained in that 

 which is the first and the last, or the theologic epoch: but by inhumanity and 

 atheism man is a perpetual bastard, always vilifying father and mother; like an 

 enemy burning the bridge of time behind him as he runs ; and those who come 

 after him being of the like mind, of course his days are short in the land which 

 his own conceit gives him. 



p. 339. 

 The human is the form of originality, or of special gifts and activities to each 

 member of the body ; for its perfection lies in the unlikeness, yet accordance, of 

 the uses which each part ministers to every other. Agreeably to this form, every 

 man has a genius of his own (p. 80), or he would have no function in his com- 

 monwealth. The animal form is the reverse of this, for animality limited to 

 self, works for no commonwealth, but aims to put itself in the room of others, 

 and thus to engender universal sameness of functions, each animal striving to 

 have all advantage, and to be everything in its sphere. There are, then, two 

 opposite forms in man, and out of him, viz., the human form divine, and the 

 monkey form infernal. And there are two classifications of nature correspond- 

 ing with these unlike principles. See our tract published some years since, on 

 The Groztping of Animals. 



