Book XVII
ORGANICAL SCIENCES.
HISTORY OF PHYSIOLOGY
AND
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.
Fearful and wondrous is the skill which moulds
Our body’s vital plan,
And from the first dim hidden germ unfolds
The perfect limbs of man.
Who, who can pierce the secret? tell us how
Something is drawn from naught,
Life from the inert mass? Who, Lord! but thou,
Whose hand the whole has wrought?
Of this corporeal substance, still to be,
Thine eye a survey took;
And all my members, yet unformed by thee,
Were written in thy book.
Psalm cxxxix. 13–16.