14 THE HUMAN BODY. 



be doubted by no one ; still greater is his supremacy when 

 we consider his power of forming conceptions of right and 

 wrong, and his knowledge of moral responsibility; But 

 anatomists have only to deal with man's body as a mate- 

 rial object, and as such they classify it among other ani- 

 mal bodies according to the greater or less resemblances 

 or differences which are found between it and them. * 



* It will be found very useful to accompany the teaching of this chapter with a 

 demonstration on the body of a dead rat, kitten, or puppy. On opening the body 

 the chest and abdominal cavities will be readily shown, and also the main organs 

 in them. Then, on opening the skull, the brain will be seen, and on cutting across 

 the spinal column with stron scissors, the slender soft spinal cord lying in its tutx: 

 will come into view. 



