Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction . itself anteriorly. Its development thereforecrowds the eyes apart, as in the following engraving of Black-hawk, indicated by width between the eyes. When it issmall, the nose near its root will be narrow, and the eyes setnear together. 432. ADAPTATION AND FUNCTION. Configuration is a necessary property of matter. Allnatural things, even all the minute particles of matter whichcompose our world and its contents, have a shape. Nophysical being or thing can exist without having some this element e
Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction . itself anteriorly. Its development thereforecrowds the eyes apart, as in the following engraving of Black-hawk, indicated by width between the eyes. When it issmall, the nose near its root will be narrow, and the eyes setnear together. 432. ADAPTATION AND FUNCTION. Configuration is a necessary property of matter. Allnatural things, even all the minute particles of matter whichcompose our world and its contents, have a shape. Nophysical being or thing can exist without having some this element existed in nature, nothing could possesstills mark of distinction, nor have any looks or shape, so thatwe could recognise no person or thing before seen by thisconvenient means of recognizance. Or if this element existedin nature, but man had no primary mental faculty adapted toit, he might see his fellow men nine hundred and ninety-nine times in a day, yet not know them the thousandth. Butwith this arrangement in nature and this mental faculty in FUNCTION OF FOKM. 47 FORM VERY sm ^m0^^r No. 12. Blackhawk. man adapting him to it, we readily recognise persons andthings seen years ago, or but once before. In general thisconfiguration of persons and things is permanent, or variesonly slightly as age increases, and this faculty, by retainingthe recollection of shapes before seen, identifies persons bytheir shape and things by their looks. Certain things have also similarity of shape. Thus weknow a maple leaf by its general resemblance to all othermaple leaves; andthus of other leaves, vegetables, fruits, 48 CULTIVATION OF FORM- animals, ana persons. All tigers are analogous in to all others, and thus of all classes of things in far as the eye can distinguish a person we know himto belong to the human race by his resemblance in form tothat race Besides this general resemblance-though all havefeet, body, hands, heads, eyes, noses, mouths, chins, eyebro
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