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Seventh edition, revised. |
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1 online resource (xxxv, 260 pages) |
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Ebsco PsychBooks.
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Summary |
"If we select any object from the whole extent of animated nature, and contemplate it fully and in all its bearings, we shall certainly come to this conclusion: that there is Design in the mechanical construction, Benevolence in the endowments of the living properties, and that Good on the whole is the result. As to Man, we shall be led to infer that the pains and pleasures of mere bodily sense (with yet more benevolent design) carry him onward, through the development and improvement of the Mind, to higher aspirations. To comprehend the perfection of the structure of any single organ of an animal body, and to see how the same system of parts is adapted to an infinite variety of conditions, we must view the same organ comparatively: this carries us into a new science, no less than that which regards the changes in the surface of the Globe. And although, in this comparison, we shall find that stupendous revolutions have occurred indicative of power, it is in contemplating the adaptation of the newly introduced forms of living and organised matter to these successive changes in the surface of the earth, that we shall have the best proofs of the continuance of that Power which first created. Such is the course of reasoning which I propose to follow in giving an account of the Hand and Arm. I shall contrast them, in the first place, with the corresponding parts of living creatures through all the divisions of the chain of vertebrated animals; and then I shall take the hand, not merely as combining the perfections of mechanical structure, but as possessing the property of Touch, by which it ministers to and improves every other sense, constituting it the organ in the body the most remarkable for correspondence with Man's capacities"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Print version record. |
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EBSCOhost APA Psycbooks |
Subject |
Hand -- Physiology.
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Hand -- Mechanical properties.
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Nervous system.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects.
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Natural theology.
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Hand -- Mechanical properties.
(OCoLC)fst00950840
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Hand -- Physiology.
(OCoLC)fst00950844
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Medicine -- Religious aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01015038
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Natural theology. (OCoLC)fst01034530
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Nervous system. (OCoLC)fst01036080
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Hand -- physiology.
(DNLM)D006225Q000502
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Nervous System. (DNLM)D009420
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Theology. (DNLM)D028725
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Medicine. (DNLM)D008511
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Shaw, Alexander, 1804-1890. Hand. 7th ed., rev. London : Bell & Daldy, 1865 |
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