PART THIRD. 



THE HUMAN BODY. 



CHAPTER I. 



BONES AND MUSCLES. 



The Human Form our highest Ideal Symmetry The Vital System The 

 Spine Cranium Thorax Pelvis Extremities Mechanism of Joints 

 Protection of Brain and Organs of Sense Muscles of the Neck, 

 Face, Eye, Fore-arm Tendons Nervous Control of Muscular Action, 

 Habitual Movements Form of Muscular Contraction. 



THE body of man is the sensible or material outgrowth of his 

 soul or life. It is the visible and palpable extension and 

 manifestation of his being, and the medium of his ordinary 

 communication with the material world and his fellow-men. 



Every faculty of the soul has its bodily organ, and the assem- 

 blage of these organs constitutes the human body. We call 

 the brain the organ of the mind, but the brain, by its nervous 

 extensions, pervades the whole body; and the mind, soul, or 

 life, therefore, lives in every part. The whole form of man is 

 therefore the form of his soul or spiritual essence. 



And this form is, in its masculine and feminine types, the 

 most noble and beautiful of which we have any conception, 

 so that we readily believe that "God made man in his own 

 image," for we have no higher ideal. The most beautiful 

 objects in art are representations, in statues and paintings, of 



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