CHAPTER VI. 



SYNTHESIS OP GROUPS INTO MEMBERS. BODY. 



PURPOSES APPLIED. MIND. 



1314. WHEN THE TWO GROUPS OF APPARATUS ARE 

 BROUGHT TOGETHER, they will be found perfectly adapted 

 to each other ; the trunk-walls that are for the primary 

 purpose of sustaining the head are exactly adapted to en- 

 close the subsidiary group, and can perform all their acts 

 the better for its being there. 



1315. THE TWO GROUPS BROUGHT TOGETHER IN- 

 STANTLY EXHIBIT five kinds of members, HEAD, Neck, 

 Trunk, lower extremities and upper extremities, to 

 which a little consideration will add a sixth, the larynx 

 and thus the Body stands complete. 



1316. Thus, from the primary Chemical Elements, 

 have we come up through Organic Elements, Tissues 

 and Fluids, Organs, Apparatus, Mechanisms, Members, 

 to the fully developed Body, " most fearfully and won- 

 derfully made," fit instrument for the attainment of the 

 highest purposes. But how shall its latent powers be 

 developed? What shall attune its lips to eloquence? 

 What shall gather wisdom through its activities and 

 adaptation ? What shall provide for its wants under all 

 the varied circumstances of life ? To the Body let the 

 Mind be added, and MAN stands forth complete, poten- 

 tial to the development of all his powers, and to the in- 

 vention of whatever is necessary to aid therein. 



Those who desire to read upon these subjects in greater detail, are referred to 

 Leidy's splendid work on Anatomy, also to Harrison's, and to the admirable Phy- 

 siological works of Draper and Dalton. They maybe had of the publishers of this 

 work, at a discount to Teachers. 



