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Men are but children of a larger growth,
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving too, and full as vain;
And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward,
To the world's open view.

Ah! what is Man, when his own wish prevails!
How rash, how swift to plunge himself in ill!
Proud of his pow'r, and boundless in his will.

With what unequal tempers are we fram'd?
One day the soul, supine with ease and fulness,
Revels secure, and fondly tells herself

The hour of evil can return no more:

The next, the spirits pall'd, and sick of riot,
Turn all to discord, and we hate our being;
Curse the past joy, and think it folly all,
And bitterness and anguish.

Mankind, one day, serene and free appear;
The next, they're cloudy, sullen, and severe;
New passions, new opinions still excite;
And what they like at noon, despise at night.
They gain with labour what they quit with ease;
And health, for want of change, becomes disease.
Religion's bright authority they dare,

And yet are slaves to superstitious fear.

They counsel others, but themselves deceive;

And, though they're cozen'd still, they still believe.

Mankind upon each other's ruin rise;

Cowards maintain the brave, and fools the wise.
Mankind each other's stories still repeat;

And man to man is a succeeding cheat.

DRYDEN.

DRYDEN.

ROWE.

DR. GARTH.

SIR R. HOWARD.

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Were I (who to my cost, already am

One of those strange, prodigious creatures, Man,)
A spirit free to choose for my own share

What case of flesh and blood I'd please to wear;
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear,
Or any thing, but that vain animal,

Who is so proud of being rational.

Birds feed on birds, beasts on each other prey;
But savage man alone does man betray!
Press'd by necessity, they kill for food;
Man undoes man to do himself no good.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful is Man!
How passing wonder HE, who made him such!
Who centred in our make such strange extremes;
From different natures marvellously mix'd!
Connexion exquisite of distant worlds!
Distinguish'd link in being's endless chain!
Midway from nothing to the Deity!
A beam ethereal, sullied and absorb'd!
Dim miniature of greatness absolute;
An heir of glory! a frail child of dust!
Helpless-immortal! insect-infinite!
A worm! a god! I tremble at myself,
And in myself am lost! How reason reels!
Oh! what a miracle to man is MAN!

YOUNG.

ANATOMY.

We have now examined this "Lord of the Creation" from the Embryo to the Foetus-from the Foetus to the smiling Infant, helpless in his mother's arms-from thence to vigorous Youth-and finally to Manhood-firm, severe, deliberative; and intent upon self and self-preservation: in other words, we have given the general character or description of MAN, as it regards his station in he scale of existence.

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We will now proceed to take a more minute survey of this living mystery, by examining the contrivance and mechanism of the human body; preparatory to that separate description of his passions and other properties of the mind, which the following sheets will furnish.

The contrivance of every animal, and especially of the human body, says the great Mr. BOYLE, is so curious and exquisite, that it is impossible for any one, who has not anatomically considered or examined it on dissection, to imagine or conceive how much excellent workmanship is displayed in this admirable engine. Even the meanest living creatures of God's making, are far more wisely contrived than the most excellent pieces of workmanship that human heads or hands can boast of.*

* Anatomy, in the theory of it, especially when joined by Physiology, can seldom fai} to excite the curiosity of persons of taste, as a branch of philosophy; since, if it affords gratification to acquire some insight into the structure of the body, it is certainly more so to trace all the latent springs which give life, vigour, and motion to the machine, and to observe the admirable mechanism by which so many different functions are executed. The most renowned philosophers before the Christian era, even from the slight acquaintance they had with the structure of animals, expressed their firm conviction of the existence and attributes of a Deity, more from this consideration than from any thing else around them. “Let your soul (says Antoninus, the pagan philosopher) receive the Deity, as your corporeal frame does the air; for the influences of the one are no less vital than the other. This intimate correspondence is very practicable; for there is an Omnipresent Spirit which lies as open and pervious to your mind, as the air you breathe does to your lungs; but then you must remember to be disposed to draw it.”

The study and observation therefore of anatomical facts will lead to the best purposes; ît will excite admiration of and gratitude to the supreme Author of our being; it will create an enthusiastical, yet rational desire to live again, with more expanded faculties; and it will give us the means of comprehending the whole plan of the beneficent Author of nature, in so forming the universe, and regularly directing all its operations. It will lay a foundation for acquiring such a knowledge of our physical temperament, and of the various medicines adapted to it by nature and art, as will constitute us more unerring guardians of our own health and happiness-an art in some degree indispensable, as the author of the Spectator observes, for every one to learn.

Man, indeed, of all animals, is possessed of the greatest facilities of accommodating his constitution to all seasons and climates; from whence it seems not unfair to conclude, that most of our diseases are brought on by à careless or imprudent management of ourselves; and our progression in the knowledge of natural and artificial remedies will of necessity keep pace with our knowledge in Anatomy, and the laws of the animal economy. Thus the seed of disease may be discovered and destroyed, ere it has time to take root.

ANATOMY reveals great Nature's plan,
Displays on earth the majesty of man,

Whose curious frame betrays the pow'r divine,
With God's own image stamp'd on every line.

Were it possible for the eye to view through the skin the mechanism of our own body, the sight would overwhelm us. Durst we make a single movement, if we saw our blood circulating, the nerves operating, the lungs blowing, the humours filtrating, and all the incomprehensible assemblage of fibres, tubes, pumps, currents, and pivots, which sustain an existence at once so frail and so presumptuous.

Thou moving mystery, that canst or move
Or stop at pleasure-curious mechanism,
Whose spring is spirit, and whose action will!
Warm, conscious wax, on which all passing things,
Series of seals, successive impress makę,

Of pleasure or of pain! Imperial mark,

By which the frame Almighty fingers form'd

Is known from moving systems made by man!

Eminent work! which all the sons of skill,

From every clime conven'd, could ne'er, with all
Their hands' collected cunning, emulate!
Invention all-divine!

Of the Bones in general.

FAWCETT.

Nature evidently designed the bones to give shape and firmness to the human fabric; to form levers for the muscles to act upon, and to defend those parts from external injury, which are most immediately necessary to life; as the brain, spinal marrow, heart lungs, &c.

Say, what the various bones so wisely wrought,
How was their frame to such perfection brought?
What did their figures for their uses fit,
Their numbers fix, and joints adapted knit;

And make them all in that just order stand,
Which motion, strength, and ornament demand ?

Of the Sutures and Bones of the Head.

The mutual indentation of one bone with another, forms what is called a suture.

The coronal suture runs across the scull, from one upper edge of the sphenoidal bone to the other, and joins the parietal to the frontal bones.

The sagittal suture joins the parietal bones, begins at the os occi pitis, and is continued to the os frontis.

The lambdoidal suture joins the back part of the ossa bregmatis, or parietal bones, to the upper part of the occipital,

The squamous suture is formed by the upper part of the temporal and sphenoidal bones wrapping over the lower edges of the parietal bones.

The transverse suture runs across the face, through the bottoms of the orbits of the eyes.

The advantage arising from the scull being divided into so many fractures is, that it is neither so liable to be fractured, nor to have the bones extended so far, as would happen, were it composed of one bone only.

Ten of the bones of the head compose the cranium, the use of which is to contain the brain, and defend it from external injuries.

Ossa parietalia; the two large bones which compose the superior and lateral parts of the scull. On their inside they are remarkably imprinted by the arteries of the dura mater, exhibiting somewhat the appearance of the branches of a tree.

The os frontis forms the upper and fore-part of the cranium. Its inferior parts compose the superior portions of the orbits of the eyes, where, on its insides, are impressed the volvuli of the brain.

The os ethmoides, or sieve-like bone, is about two inches in circumference, and is seated in the anterior part of the basis of the scull, being almost surrounded by the bone last described. It is pierced with a number of holes, through which the olfactory nerves pass. From its middle arises a large process named crista galli; and opposite to this a thin one, which in part divides the nose.

Os sphenoides is of so very irregular a shape, as scarcely to allow of verbal description.

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