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extremities ' for an infinite variety of movements, 

 which exists in no other creature, and in which the 

 whole of the upper body above the posterior extremi- 

 ties somewhat participates. 



The visible attributes mentioned up to secondly 

 in the last paragraph suggest extreme inoffensive - 

 ness; a peaceful, kindly disposition; aversion 

 to violent, arbitrarily selfish acts. Those cited 

 from secondly to fourthly indicate docility, intel- 

 lectual power, energy, and acuteness, therefore 

 the ability to plan for complex purposes. Those 

 explained under fourthly and fifthly imply the 

 physiological capacity to execute an infinite variety 

 of complex concerted movements with ease. Such 

 movements can, by the exercise of the intellectual 

 faculties implied between secondly and fourthly 

 in the last paragraph, be co-ordinated into conduct 

 favorable to complex and remote results. Con- 

 sidered in their entirety, these attributes are sug- 

 gestive of a nature easily impressed, quickly aroused, 

 ready to compare, reflect, and decide, therefore 

 inclined to fellow-feeling, sympathy. 



Such are the characteristics implied by the visible 

 appearances of the natural human body. And such 

 are the traits of character which the physical attri- 



1 Although the parts called anterior and posterior in other 

 creatures are in man, in reality, superior and inferior, yet have 

 the former terms been retained in these essays; because, firstly, 

 they apply to all brutes universally, with this one exception, 

 and, secondly, because it keeps this fact more forcibly before 

 the mind, that the change from the firmer, safer horizontal to 

 the more mobile vertical attitude produced wonderful differences. 



