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Wonderful It All Is

August 9th, 2007 at 11:25 pm » Comments (0)

Wonderful It All Is.–Wonderful!  Within us is an Almighty Architect, who superintends a thousand skilled laborers, that make a way which puzzles human comprehension; theory fiber of muscle; they are a filament of nerve; here constructing a bone; they are uniting attendant — fashioning each with the most scrupulous care and unerring nicety.  Without the buzz [...]



Vitality of the Heart

July 10th, 2007 at 11:03 am » Comments (0)

Vitality of the Heart.  — its vitality is as amazing as its strength.  While life exists this tireless order never stops.  In disease, as long as a flutter of this wondrous organ exists, we know the spark of life is not altogether vanished, and new Hope is begotten that helped me be restored.  Airing such [...]



Combines Lightness and Strength

May 31st, 2007 at 2:34 am » Comments (0)

But notwithstanding this diversity in form, the general plan constantly kept in view by the Divine Architect has been the central idea of combining lightness with the greatest possible degree of strength.  The bones of the arms and legs are round were triangular, and hollow, thus giving with the same weight a greater degree of [...]



Man the Most Complex Body

April 29th, 2007 at 9:15 am » Comments (0)

Man the Most Complex Body.– it embodies in the epitome of the whole universe!  Man is more elaborate, more complex, more God-like, than any other living organism; more wonderful, more beautiful, more marvelous, that any work of human ingenuity, conception or construction.
Indeed, the mechanism, the skill and the workmanship displayed in the human body is [...]



VIEW OF THE BASE OF THE CRANIUM - Brain Cavity

March 20th, 2007 at 9:55 am » Comments (0)

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 [...]



View of the Eye

March 17th, 2007 at 2:52 pm » Comments (0)

The next section covers The View of the Eye on page 36.
The next section goes into a short description of the image of the eye as provider from a profile of a human skull which includes some of the muscles and nerves associated with the eyeball. It does not include a detailed description were [...]