CHAPTER VIII. 



ANATOMICAL. 



** And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. . . . 

 So God created man in His o\vn image, in the image of God created He 

 him." GEN. i. 26, 27. 



" We are the offspring of God." ACTS xiii. 29. 



" What a piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite 

 in faculty 1 in form and moving, how express and admirable ! in action 

 how like an angel ! in apprehension, how like a god ! "SHAKESPEARE. 



'UR microscopical studies would be incomplete 

 without some reference to what should 

 interest us more than anything else; I 

 mean, ourselves. We have already seen 

 something of the wonders of the world we 

 live on ; shall we not look into some of the 

 wonders of the world we live in? Awaiting our 

 patient investigation, are preparations of the human body 

 from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, exter 

 nally and internally, from the brain down to the lungs, the 

 heart, and the stomach. 



There are some who are afraid to know of the 

 mysteries which are associated with their lives, but 

 surely this is unwise. We are reminded that " we are 

 fearfully and wonderfully made ; " but how can we 

 appreciate the wonder of a thing the mechanism of which 



