20 LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN. 



elevate man to a greater distance above the brute 

 than this extension of it has lifted him above his 

 former self. 



It may be objected, that man has a larger brain 

 than other animals, and that his superior ratio- 

 cinative powers may be owing to this circumstance. 

 The objection may be answered in two ways. I 

 shall first answer it as though it were true : for if 

 it be true, it does not invalidate my argument : 

 for if man possesses a larger brain, it is only in 

 consequence of his possessing the organs of speech. 

 Because, that man should speak, was a part of his 

 original design; and the Creator, foreknowing (as 

 he foreknew, and provided for every other exi- 

 gency) that the faculty of speech would render a 

 larger brain necessary for the reception of that 

 multitudinous host of ideas which his vocal organs ' 

 would enable him to muster and in order that he 

 might reap the full advantage which His gift of 

 speech was calculated to confer upon him has 

 given him a magnitude of brain corresponding to 

 his necessity. If he had not done so, he would 

 have defeated his own purpose : he would have 

 given him the means of acquiring ideas, without the 

 means of turning them to account ; and man, as it 

 regards his reason, would still have been but one 



