The hand: its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design / by Sir Charles Bell.

  • Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The hand: its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design / by Sir Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    THE HAND, ITS MECHANISM AND VITAL ENDOWMENTS, AS EVINCING DESIGN. chaptp:r I. 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 mechan- ical construction, benevolence in the endowments of the living properties, and that good on the whole is the result. We shall perceive that the sensibilities of the body have a relation to the qualities of things external, and that delicacy of texture is, therefore, a necessary part of its con- stitution. Wonderful, and exquisitely constructed, as the mechanical appliances are for the protec- tion of this delicate structure, they are altogether insufficient; and a protection of a very different kind, which shall animate the body to the utmost B