A Criticism of the Human Body
William H. Taylor, M.D., professor of chemistry and medical jurisprudence at the medical college of Virginia, startled the community by delivering before his class a lecture recently on “The Body,” in which he declared that it is not the exalted mechanism it is vaunted to be. Critical examination of man, he said, shows carelessness and bad workmanship from head to foot. For example, any maker of optical instruments who sent out such a piece of work as the eye would certainly have it thrown back on his hands. And so after all that scientists, authors, artists, poets, and medical men have said about the marvels and mysteries, wonders and beauties, of the human body, marred by sin as it is, and degenerated by six thousand years of the reign of disease and death, we are to find in this last age, in which everything under heaven and throughout the universe is criticized, that the body is a pretty poor job after all. The Scriptures