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that is, in reference to the supremacy of 

 Mind* There are stronger arms, there are swifter 

 limbs, there are more powerful teeth, there are 

 finer ears, there are sharper eyes. There are crea^- 

 tures which go where he cannot go, and can live 

 where he would die. But all his members 

 are co-ordinated with one power — the power of 

 Thought. Through this he has the dominion over 

 all other created things — whilst yet as regards 

 the type and pattern of His frame he has not a 

 single bone or joint or organ which he does not 

 share with some one or other of the Beasts that 

 perish. It is not in any of the parts of His struc- 

 ture, but in their combination and adjustment, 

 that he stands alone. 



All these facts must convince us that we must 

 enlarge our ideas as to what is meant by Use in 

 the economy of Nature. In the first place, it must 

 be so interpreted as to include ornament ; and in 

 the second place, it must include also not merely 

 Actual Use, but Potential Use, or the capacity of 



* "Quid reliqua description e omnium corporis partium, in qua 

 nihil inane nihil sine causa nihil supervacaneum est ? " — Cicero, De 

 A/at. Deor., lib. i. cap. 33. 



