Excerpt from The Human Body and Its Connexion With Man: Illustrated by the Principal Organs

AT the end of a work, an author writes the preface or beginning, unable to neglect the law which urges that extremes shall meet. Prefaces need no apology, and a reader intending to study a book, does not do himself justice unless he peruses them. A preface gives the author's last conception of his aim - the most comprehensive eye with which he see it. And unless the reader looks through this eye, he cannot enter into the author's mind. The study of a book is the temporary putting on of the faculties and insights of another, and the sooner the assumption takes place, the sooner the reader be gins to read aright.

To assist this we have a few remarks to make that may prepare in some measure for the following pages.

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