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lie wishes distinctly to set forth that Humanity stands 

 not only in degree but in kind, above Animality, — that 

 man is a being invested with a masterly privilege 

 over the brute, — and that the bodily form, as the 

 representative of a psychical governance, wears a true 

 dignity of character. Throughout this series of lectures 

 on man, Goodsir has given an anatomical and philo- 

 sophical explanation of a deep meaning of Spencer 

 the poet, couched in the following lines in " An 

 Hymne in Honour of Beautie" — 



" For of the smile the boclie form doth take ; 

 For soule is forme, and doth the hodie make." 



He argued for the absolute completeness of the struc- 

 tural characteristics of man. The animal body 

 might be complete as far as the purpose of its crea- 

 tion, but incomplete as regards the type of structure on 

 which it is formed — in other words, ideologically 

 complete, yet morphologically incomplete ; whereas 

 1 lie human body he considered complete in both 

 respects. In his exaltations of man, he was not for- 

 getful of the existence in the animal of a principle 

 allied to human consciousness. 



In his lecture on " The Essence of Humanity/' he 

 held that tradition, history, and revelation combined 

 in assigning a locality in the North Temperate Region 

 for the original area of man. He looked upon the 

 arrangements by which "theered position in man" 



maintained a involving the conception of 

 absolute!} complete structure and as highly important 



