The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.

  • Fau, Julien.
Date:
1849
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Credit: The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE ANATOMY OF THE EXTERNAL FORMS OF MAN. CHAPTER I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON MAN, AND ON THE MODIFICATIONS HE UNDERGOES THROUGH MORAL AND PHYSICAL INFLUENCES TEMPERAMENTS, RACES. The gift of an intelligence superior to that of all other animals leaves man nothing to envy them on the score of structure. Hence, I do not sympathize with those misanthropic philosophers, who have drawn a parallel between man and other animals in favour of the latter. According to them, the finest: gifts of nature have been denied to man. The undulating forms, the slender, yet agile limbs, at times robust and of matchless strength; the gorgeous display of colours with which nature has decorated the animal kingdom ; these, she has denied to the human species. In lieu of such qualities, unbefitting his kind, she has bestowed on him a superior