Then you shall make a discourse on the hands of each animal in order to show how they vary, as in the bear in which the ligaments ofthe tendons of the toes of the foot are connected over the neck of the foot.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

The frog instantly dies when the spinal cord is pierced; and previous to this it lived without head without heart or any bowels or intestines orskin; and here therefore it would seem lies the foundation of move- ment and life.