DIVISION I. 



I.— ON THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN BODY* 



LECTUEE I. 



THE NATURE OF ANIMAL1TY. 



1. The object of this course of lectures is to illustrate the 

 absolute completeness of human structure, when compared 

 with the merely relative completeness of animal structure. 

 The term animal is used to indicate all the forms below man. 



2. The conditions of life in any given form of animal 

 supply tin' grounds on which the relative completeness of its 

 structure may be inferred — these conditions are, climate, food, 

 geographical area, etc. — and, in like manner, the conditions of 

 human existence indicate that absolute completeness which 

 constitutes the structural characteristic of man. 



3. It is therefore essential, for the satisfactory study of 

 the relative and absolute structural completeness of the animal 



* The ten following lectures "On the Dignity of (lie Human Body, con- 

 sidered in ;i comparison of its Structural Relations with those of the higher 

 Vertebrata," were delivered t'> tin- class of Anatomy during the summer session 

 Tli'- manuscript from which we have printed waa arranged in the 

 form of propositions, which were read t" the class, and then illustrated by 

 a'MitiiPii.il observation . and when practicable bj a reference to specimens and 



diagrams We have, r i notes taken at tin- time bj one of tin' auditors, 



, panded man] of these propositions by adding t" them tin- additional ob- 

 servations in. nil-, ami bj reproducing some "I tin' most importanl diagran 

 Eds. 

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