The Primeval Dignity Of Man PDF Download

Excerpt from The Primeval Dignity of Man: An Address Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Human Physiology, Delivered at the Toland Medical College, by J. Campbell Shorb, M. D., Professor of Physiology; June 4th, 1867 Let us st0p here a moment and look around us. We are sitting, Marius like, amid the wrecks and ruins of the past, and hearing the sad but eloquent pleadings coming up from by-gone ages for justice, soccer and defence. Man, our idol, is assassinated, his throne is destroyed, his glory eclipsed and his sovereignty over! There was beauty, if nothing else, in our'time-honored belief in the nobility of man's origin, but the theory that the Vandalism of the present proposes as a substitute is the very incarnation of ugliness. In the blazing light of modern science many fanciful notions that thronged the past, have been consumed, and we hear without regret that Neptune has been forced to drop histrident with which he controled the passions of the ocean and the pulses of the tides, and that Bolus guarded in his island home by wallsof brass and smooth, precipitous rocks, keeps the wild winds in subjection no longer, but we turn with instinctive horror from such elaborate improvement as would disarticulate man from his Creator and make his destiny, one in common with the brutes of the field which perish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.