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12. Wonderful play of the muscles and the movement of the 

 fingers ; example of piano-forte playing. 13. The lower members. 

 14. The leg and foot. 15. The erect position proper to man. 

 16. Man alone bimanous and bipedous. 17. Quadrumana. 

 18. Power of language 49 



CHAP. II. 19. Physical feebleness of Man. 20. His helpless infancy. 

 21. His great power nevertheless. 22. Man gregarious. 23. 

 His dentile apparatus. 24. Why nevertheless he uses animal 

 food. 25. His migratory power and distribution over the globe. 

 26. View of his progress from the cradle to the grave. 27. 

 Births. 28. Cases of two and three at a birth. 29. Births 

 more prevalent at certain seasons. 30. Proportion of the sexes 

 born. 31. Proportion in the case of illegitimates. 32. Chances 

 of life more favourable for females. 33. Organs of sense in 

 infancy the eye. 34. The voice. 35. The bones. 36. In- 

 stinct in the infant. 37. Terror of falling. 38. Milk teeth. 

 39. Permanent teeth. 40. Their periods of emergence. 41. The 

 average height of men. 42. Giants and dwarfs. 43. Average 

 height of women. 44. The influence of race. 45. Influence of 

 climate. 46. Hygienic conditions. 47. Their effects shown by 

 conscription in France. 48. Rate of growth from infancy to 

 maturity. 49. Progressive increase of bulk. 50. Organic 

 changes at puberty. 51. Organic changes in the bones. 

 52. The muscles. 53. Examples of longevity. 54. Great 

 mortality in infancy .65 



CHAP. III. 55. Average duration of life. 56. In England and 

 France. 57. Great mortality of foundlings. 58. Average 

 number of children per marriage. 59. Influences which produce 

 permanent changes in Man. 60. Indications of a common origin 

 for the human race. 61. Naturalists in this verify the Hebrew 

 Scriptures. 62. The five races of men. 63. The Caucasian 

 variety. 64. The Mongol. 65. The Malay. 66. The Ethiopian. 

 67. The American. 68. The relation of languages. 69. 

 The limits of physiological and psychological speculation. 70. 

 Man material and intellectual. 71. Connection between the 

 physical and the intellectual. 72. Personal identity. 73. 

 Analysis of the constituents of the human body. 74. The 

 absurd consequences of materialism. 75. Further difficulties 

 from the question of personal identity. 76. The body said to 

 change altogether once a month. 77. The intellectual part how- 

 ever suffers no change materialism disproved. 78. Regularity 

 of moral and intellectual phenomena. 79. Difference between 

 them and physical phenomena. 80. Freedom of will does not 

 prevent these phenomena, considered collectively, from observing 

 general laws. 81. Example of statistical phenomena. 82. Fre- 

 quency of marriages. 83. Constant proportion of unequal 

 marriages. 84. Proportion of illegitimate children. 85. Pre- 

 valence of crime, and proportion of acquittals. 86. Acts of for- 

 getfulness number of unaddressed letters posted. 87. General 

 conclusion .......... 81 



