26 COMPARISONS OF STRUCTURE IN ANIMALS. 



it with their talons ; the mole excavates galleries 

 in the earth ; but still in these and all other 

 examples, even in the chimpanzee and orang, 

 both pairs of limbs are locomotive organs. 



On the contrary, the inferior extremities 

 alone in man are organs of locomotion ; his 

 attitude is erect, his arms are free, and the 

 arrangement of every portion of which they con- 

 sist indicates their appointment as ministers of 

 the will of an intellectual being. " Some animals," 

 says Eay, " have horns, some have hoofs, some 

 teeth, some talons, some claws, some spurs and 

 beaks. Man hath none of all these, but is 

 sent unarmed into the world, weak and feeble. 

 Why ? A hand, with reason to use it, supplies 

 the use of all these." Without the arm and 

 hand, indeed, man would not be able to carry 

 out the designs to which the vigour of his 

 intellectual powers prompts him. It is a law 

 of creative providence, that every creature shall 

 be adequately endowed for the accomplishment 

 of its work according to the measure and 

 direction of its instincts or intelligence. Nor 

 is man excluded from this law ; and as the 

 head of the elephant would be preposterous on 

 the neck of the giraffe, or the limbs of the 

 antelope on the trunk of the lion, so would the 



