CHAPTER IV. 



ON THE EQUIVALENTS OF THE HAND AS AN ORGAN 

 OF TOUCH. 



What -we have already said respecting the 

 human hand as an organ of touch, distin- 

 guished from what we term feeling, or a 

 sensibility to agreeable or painful sensations, 

 we shall not here repeat. We may, however, 

 observe, that as this sense is not needed in 

 great perfection by the lower orders,' seeing 

 that man only reasons, compares, and appre- 

 ciates, so we must not expect to find it of 

 extraordinary delicacy in whatever organ it 

 may be seated among them, and in some it 

 may be almost said to be absent. 



In the monkey and ape tribes, which approach 

 the nearest to man in their general conforma- 

 tion — the interval, however, being very great — 

 the sense of touch undoubtedly resides in the 

 hands. We see these animals try the hardness 



