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tution consists of three elements — a corporeal, a 

 psychical, and a spiritual. In treating of " progressive 

 man" in the last lecture of the series, and of the 

 influence of Christianity on man, he said — " I would 

 only impress upon you, as students of science, that 

 science, properly so called, had its origin within the 

 Christian era ; that its progress is one of the results of 

 Christianity ; and, moreover, that one of the greatest 

 dangers to which the Christian system is at present 

 exposed is the erroneous tendency to elevate science 

 above the other forms of human belief." 



However man was to be viewed relatively, Goodsir 

 aimed, in the first place, at an accurate definition of 

 his physical lines and form — a great desideratum in 

 anthropology ; and his anatomy, though very briefly 

 set forth, is admirably done. He had a greater object 

 in view, however, and that was the declaration of his 

 I ^ychological views of man, in the hope of checking the 

 growing Darwinianism in England, and counteractino- 

 the impression made upon the members of the Edin- 

 burgh Philosophical Institution by Professor Huxley's 

 lectures on " The Eolation of Man to the Lower Ani- 

 mals." In his anatomical and medical inquiries he 

 bad always stood out for man's superiority in the scale 

 of being, his high attributes and spiritual relations. 

 A ,i professor, he felt bound to show his colours ; nay, 

 I,,- held it t<> lu- ;hi imperative duty to defend the 

 citadel of orthodoxy against whal he deemed an un- 

 qualified and hasty exprei don of thought. Speaking 

 wiih the authority of an anatomist, and adducing 



