today were moving into a new section looking at the base of the cranium.  In this section the book is referring to a top-down view of the skull.  Illustration is somewhat pale and lacking in details.  Nothing in this particular picture is labeled and in a sense the picture only gives the reader a slight point of reference absent the following detail:

 Brain Cavity.  Here in this remarkable illustration we presented to us one of the most wonderful views the anatomy of this goal, or, in fact, at a part of the human frame.  It is a view of the floor of the cranial cavity on which that curious and mysterious, but sublime organ, the brain, rest.  The marvelous skill and ingenuity therein display, of the complex mechanism surveyed, the beautiful and intricate manner in which the nerves of special scents are so elaborately set forth, the complicated perfusion and exquisite design manifest in the distribution of blood vessels for the nourishment and support of the special organ of reason and intelligence — all claim our closest and undivided attention, and we are unconsciously led to revere the Omniscience of Him who could conceive of such intricate architecture, and perform such delicate, unique and perfect workmanship.  The large opening observed in the floor of the cranial cavity is the foramen magnum, through which the spinal cord, together with the cerebro-spinal nerves, escape.

In this section we once again have a Nonsecular reference of “Omniscience of Him” referring to the God as Creator that designed the base of the cranium in such elaborate detail and perfection, which was then represented in such a lackluster and drab diagram of the same.    The section doesn’t so much describe or explain the workings of the brain cavity as it describes the authors extreme level of off at the ability of a god to create this device like structure area.