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structure clear traces of all the stages through which 

 it has passed, and by which it has been perfected, 

 linking its vesture with that which clothed in succession 

 of development the inferior animals from the lowest 

 forms. The rudimentary organs that are useless in the 

 lower animals in which they occur acquire use and 

 significance in man's body; while the structures that 

 exist as dwarfed survivals in him are eminently useful 

 in the lower creatures in which they are found. In 

 both cases they are the golden taches linking them 

 together into one grand tabernacle. Man's body sums 

 up in itself all the forms, forces, and substances of the 

 world furnishes the key to the whole order of nature, 

 being a microcosm, or "in little all the sphere." It 

 builds out of the common dust of the ground a shrine 

 on whose altar the fire of conscious life is ever burning, 

 and the sacrifice of one part of its substance for the 

 maintenance of the rest is being constantly offered; 

 through which pass communications alike from the 

 lower and the higher spheres matter being stamped 

 with its lofty impress and linked with the world of 

 mind and spirit. 



But that which gives the body its wonderful 

 unity, which builds up its parts, and compacts 

 them into one grand vital whole, and makes of it a 

 temple, is the human soul that pervades and possesses 

 it. Body and soul constitute together man's personality. 

 Neither is complete without the other. We are apt to 

 separate between them, and to cast the things of the 

 body into an unkindly and unnatural shade, while we 



