 | Charles Hamilton Smith - Mammals - 1842 - 450 pages
...moreover, a characteristic which affords immense sway over their dexterity and mode of action ; it is the faculty of opposing the thumb to the other fingers, so as to seize the smallest objects, which constitutes a hand properly so called. This power is carried to the highest... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Physiology - 1843 - 640 pages
...that could be found for an order constituted by the human species only; for Man alone is twobanded. " That," says Cuvier, " which constitutes the hand,...objects, — a faculty which is carried to its highest Jecrree of perfection in Man, in whom the whole anterior extremity is free, and can be employed in... | |
 | 1849 - 556 pages
...the structure of the whole frame must conform to that of the hand, and must act in reference to it. N "That," says Cuvier, "which constitutes the hand,...other fingers so as to seize the most minute objects." This is the faculty which acting as a laborer under the guiding mind has enabled man to build the pyramid... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1853 - 1146 pages
...structure to those of Man, in the lower they gradually assimilate to the ordinary quadrupedal type. " That," says Cuvier, " which constitutes the hand,...opposing the thumb to the other fingers, so as to seize upon the most minute objects; a faculty which is carried to its highest degree of perfection in Man,... | |
 | Philosophy and religion - 1854 - 466 pages
...the structure of the whole frame must conform,to that of the hand, and must act in reference to it. " That," says Cuvier, " which constitutes the hand,...other fingers so as to seize the most minute objects." This is the faculty which acting as a laborer under the guiding mind has enabled man to build the pyramid... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Physiology - 1859 - 942 pages
...which constitutes the hand, proFio. 1. Hand of J/nn, compared with anterior extremity of Orany. perly so called, is the faculty of opposing the thumb to the other fingers, so as to seize upon the most minute objects; a faculty which is carried to its highest of perfection in Man, in whom... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...with speech, unarmed, defenceless. " That," says Cuvier, " which constitutes the hand, properly во called, is the faculty of opposing the thumb to the other fingers, so as to seize upon the most minute objecte ; a faculty which is carried to its highest degree of perfection in man."... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 852 pages
...tend to resemble the ordinary quadrupedal type. 'That,' says Cuvier, 'which constitutes the liand, properly so called, is the faculty of opposing the thumb to the other fingers, so as to seize upon the most minute objects — a faculty which is carried to its highest degree of perfection in... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Zoology - 1866 - 606 pages
...generally, indeed, those animals which stand on the borders of two great divisions. ORDER I.—BIMANA. 127. The name Bimana is the most appropriate that...the other fingers, so as to seize the most minute objects,—a faculty which is carried to its highest degree of perfection in Man, in whom the whole... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 872 pages
...structure to those of man, in the lower they gradually tend to resemble the ordinary quadrupedal type. ' That,' says Cuvier, ' which constitutes the 'hand,...opposing the thumb to the other fingers, so as to seize upon the most minute objects — -a faculty which is carried to its highest degree of perfection in... | |
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which constitutes the 'hand, properly so called, is the faculty of opposing the thumb to the other fingers, so as to seize upon the most minute objects — -a faculty which is carried to its highest degree of perfection in man, in whom the whole anterior... 
