The structure and functions of the eye, illustrative of the power, wisdom, and goodness of God / by Spencer Thomson.

  • Thomson, Spencer, 1817-1886.
Date:
1857
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Credit: The structure and functions of the eye, illustrative of the power, wisdom, and goodness of God / by Spencer Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    in a civilized condition. It is certainly true that, amid savage nations, the constant incen- tive to the keen exercise of the senses in procuring subsistence and guarding against danger, must and does call forth in them a power of discrimination they would not other- wise have; but it is a question whether this power ever equals in intensity the natural instinctive sense of the brute. The mere animal acuteness of perception, more- over, is very different from the educability of the senses bestowed upon man—the faculty of distinguishing the useful and the beautiful; in short, of surrounding himself with all that can add to the comfort and gratification of sense, of appropriating all that can elevate him as a social, moral, an intellectual and religious being.