82 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



in the animal world. They are the hot-blooded 



fishes of the ancients, and the order is now named 

 Cetacea, 



THE FIRST ORDER OF THE MAMMALIA. 



THE BIMANA, OR MAN. 



Man forms but a single genus, and the only genus 

 in the order to which he belongs. As his history is 

 more immediately interesting to ourselves, and forms 

 the proper point of comparison to which the history 

 of other animals should be referred, we shall bestow 

 upon it a proportionate degree of attention. 



We shall give a rapid sketch of every thing pe- 

 culiar in the organization of man, amidst all he 

 shares in common with the other mammalia. We 

 shall examine the advantages he derives from such 

 peculiarities over every other species. We shall 

 describe the principal varieties of the human race 

 and their distinctive character, and, finally, we shall 

 point out the natural order in which the individual 

 and social faculties of man receive their due propor- 

 tion of development. 



The peculiar Conformation of Man, 



The foot of man is exceedingly different from that 

 (or rather from the hinder hands) of apes and mon- 



