CLASS mammals: OEDER BIMANA. 



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fingers ; the power of placing the foot at right angles with 

 the leg, the sole resting fiat on the ground ; the size and 

 position of the great toe; the length of the arms, reaching 



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half-way from the hip to 

 the knees; the relatively- 

 great development of 

 brain; the freedom of 

 the anterior extremities 

 from use in locomotion, 

 and the consequent erect 

 and biped position. In 

 addition, man is the only 

 mammal that truly walks ; 

 that is endowed with the 

 power of speech; and 

 that is cosmopolitan, 

 readily adapting himself 

 to extremes of heat and 

 cold, and making his 

 home in all parts of the 

 globe. (See Pig. 5.) 



There are intellectual 

 and moral features, more- 

 over, which place man 

 high above all other ani- 

 mals. The scope of his mind and the possibilities of an 

 immortal soul, mark the rank of a being who is alone 

 declared to have been created " in the image of God." 



Common Origin of Man. — While in the human race 

 there is but a single species, zoologists are accustomed to 

 speak of several very distinctly-marked varieties. In respect 

 to the dividing lines of the commonly-enumerated five races, 

 authors disagree. So that, although there are some difEer- 

 ences of structure and great diversity in the texture of the 

 skin and the character of the hair of mankind in various 

 localities, yet in the same nation there are similar varieties ; 

 and as marked diversities have repeatedly been observed in a 



ApoUo Belvedere. 



