300 ORGANS OF THE SENSES. 



the hands and other cutaneous parts, this most general 

 sense of touch, so closely allied to common nervous sen- 

 sibility, encreases in power and extent as we ascend to man, 

 who surpasses all other animals in the exquisite and equal 

 development of all his organs of sense, and in the perfection 

 of all those higher organs of relation by which animals are 

 more immediately connected with surrounding nature. 



