Fig. 20. CAUCASIAN. 



COMMON THINGS. 

 MAK. 



CHAPTEE I. 



1. Physical condition of Man generally neglected. 2. The brain the 

 organ of intelligence. 3. General view of the nervous system. 4. 

 Structure of the brain. 5. The Facial Angle. 6. Its variation in 

 different animals. 7. Recognised as an indication of intellectual 

 power. 8. The advantages Man derives from the form of his members. 

 9. Prehensile and locomotive members. 10. Structure of the hand. 

 11. The bones of the arm and hand. 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. 



1. ALTHOUGH it lias been affirmed and quoted by generation after 

 generation that 



"The proper study of mankind is man," 



that study, even among the most cultivated, has been confined too 

 exclusively to the social and political condition of our race, to 

 the total neglect of the physical relations by which it is con- 

 nected with the inferior species. Although these relations exhibit 

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