262 TELEOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY. 



LECTUEE VII. 



TELEOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY. 



To complete the structural comparison of man and the 

 animal, an examination of their respective arrangements for 

 nutrition and reproduction should be now introduced. These 

 two organic systems are more immediately related to the 

 instinctive or animal department of the human economy, 

 and the structures appertaining to them in man differ from 

 those in the higher animal rather in their harmonious ad- 

 justments than in special modification. 



The position of man in nature might then appropriately 

 now occupy our attention, but as a preliminary to this aspect 

 of the question we must examine the value of the differences 

 between the structure of man and the animal, to which our 

 attention has been directed in the previous lectures. 



The values of structural differences and similarities vary 

 according to the anatomical point of view. In this examina- 

 tion, therefore, we must keep the fundamental principles of 

 anatomical comparison steadily before us. 



The fundamental principles of anatomical comparison are 

 involved in that twofold aspect which organic structure 

 presents, and in virtue of which we are compelled to in- 

 vestigate every structural arrangement from two apparently 

 opposite points of view ; and thus to develope two parallel 

 departments of the science — teleological and morphological 

 anatomy. 



Teleological anatomy investigates structure with reference 



