The House I Live In: Or the Human Body: For the Use of Families and Schools (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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There are reasons, however, for all this neglect. Many connect with the thoughts of studying the human frame, the idea of skeletons, dead bodies, knives, dissections, disinterments, and violent deaths. No wonder the mind should revolt at so horrible a picture No wonder that Anatomy and Physiology - for these are the hard names given to the study of the body and the laws of the body - should be neglected and despised, if these things are inseparable from it!

But they are not so. Both anatomy and physiology may be studied with advantage, with out any connection with either. Much may be learned with the aid of nothing but a book and a few good engravings; and in fact without either of these. The body itself may be studied; that is always at hand. And if dissections are even made, portions of birds or quadrupeds may be obtained, which will partly answer the pur pose. The heart, for example, of most of the common domestic animals, nearly resembles the heart of man, and would answer every purpose.

All good citizens disapprove of every form ofdisrespect for the bodies of the dead; and, above all, the barbarous practice of robbing graves.

Still this subject must be studied. Man, as has just been observed, has a body as well as a mind. A system of education which overlooks either, is essentially defective.

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