2 ON THE STRUCTURE AND 



Boar, the acorns which he discovers amongst the fallen leaves 

 in the woods. Man subjects to his dominion the whole both 

 of the vegetable and animal creation. " The fear of you, 

 "and the dread of you, (says the Almighty,) shall be upon 

 " every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, 

 " upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the 

 <c fishes of the sea: into your hands are they delivered. 

 " Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you : 

 " even as the green herb have I given you all things*. 



The barrier which separates men from brutes is fixed, and 

 immutable j and how slender soever it may sometimes appear 

 to us, Divine Wisdom has ordained that it shall not be sur- 

 mounted. 



In the general structure of the bodies of men and quadru- 

 peds, there is, in many respects, a very close alliance. They 

 are formed of precisely the same elements, and have, for the 

 most part, similar organs. They are supported by a bony 

 skeleton; have motion by means of muscles, sensation by 

 nerves, and are nourished by a fluid that circulates within 

 them, and which is itself renewed by digestion. They have 

 each a bony head, containing the brain and the principal or- 

 gans of sense, placed at the anterior extremity of a vertebral 

 column, (part of the skeleton,) which contains the spinal mar- 

 row, or the com mon fasciculus of the nerves, and of which 

 the' posterior extremity is" elongated into a coccyx or tail, 

 joining to each side of the upper part of the vertebral 

 column, are several long and curved bones, or ribs, which 

 bend forward so as to form within them a somewhat circular 

 cavity, for the protection of the most important of the vis- 

 cera They have likewise, in common with man, arteries 

 and veins, and a muscular heart, for the purpose of pro- 

 pelling the blood into every part of the body. Their brain, 



* Genesis, chap. ix. v. 2 and 3. 



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