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Title: Cosmic law; the immortality of the soul and the existence of God
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Hill, Lysander, 1834-1914
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Publisher: Chicago, Sterling Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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A - Coronal SutureB ~ Parietal Suture Fig. 10. Side view of cranium. and to complicate the problem of construction, the walls ofthe box must be made thin (x), and of several pieces not sorigidly joined together as to interfere with the growth ofthe brain, and not so loosely joined together as to be liableto accidental dislocation. Moreover, it was inevitable thatthe box should occasionally be subjected to violent strains. 1 The average thickness of the skull is about one-fifth of an inch. 148 THE HUMAN SKELETON In all animals that stand erect, its position, at the upper endof the body, exposes it to accidental contusions, and to aviolent blow in case the animal should stumble or be throwndown. All these things had to be considered, and a con-struction contrived that would reduce the danger of fatalaccident to a minimum. The construction that was adoptedhas been found to answer its various purposes admirably.
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Top view of cranium. It is seldom that the brain is severely injured except in caseswhere the tables of the skull are crushed or broken anddriven inward against it. The arched shape of the skull,the elastic scalp that covers it, and the connecting membraneat the sutures, prevent the several pieces from lateral (thatis, inward or outward) displacement, and the interlocking THE HUMAN SKELETON 149 serrations render it impossible that one piece should sliplengthwise upon another. Now, the existence of these serrations or saw-teeth can-not be accounted for on any theory of evolution. We seeby examination of the other bony structures of the skeleton,that bone does not naturally tend to form its edges with saw-teeth, but, on the contrary, to form them smooth and regular.Here, then, in the skull, is an exceptional case of bone forma-tion—a case which opposes & known law of nature. In thisfact, Darwins fundamental hypothesis of progressive modifi-cation encounters an insuperable obstacle

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