266 THE POSITION OF MAN IN THE SCALE OF BEING. 



LECTUEE VIII. 



THE POSITION OF MAN IN THE SCALE OF BEING. 



1. Ill my previous lectures I have brought successively 

 under your consideration — 



1st, The instinctive character of the animal ; 



2d, The combined instinctive and rational constitution of 

 man; 



3d, The characteristic completeness of human structure ; 



4th, The danger of overlooking the teleological aspect of 

 structure in our zoological and anthropological investigations. 



I now proceed in the present lecture to lay before you the 

 conclusions to which, in my opinion, we are led by this com- 

 prehensive mode of viewing our subject, and so as to indicate 

 to you the nature of those relations on which the fundamental 

 dignity of the human body depends. 



2. I must, however, before proceeding with the subject of the 

 present lecture, bring more fully under your consideration the 

 principle stated in my last lecture— that all organic science, 

 but more especially its anthropological department, inosculates 

 with the higher forms of truth and belief so intimately and 

 extensively as to render the discussion of the higher questions 

 as to organisation absolutely futile, if dissociated from their 

 co-ordinate department of psychological, moral, and religious 

 truth and belief. 



3. You will accpiire a clearer conception and a firmer 

 grasp of this important principle, if you bear steadily in 

 mind — 



1st, That all those departments of organic science which 



