unfathomable, even in the most abject and mortifying functions of
the body, which modesty will not allow to be more particularly
explained.


SECT. XXXVI. Of the Inward Parts.


I own that the inward parts are not so agreeable to the sight as the
outward; but then be pleased to observe they are not made to be
seen. Nay, it was necessary according to art and design that they
should not be discovered without horror, and that a man should not
without violent reluctance go about to discover them by cutting open
this machine in another man. It is this very horror that prepares
compassion and humanity in the hearts of men when one sees another
wounded or hurt. Add to this, with St. Austin, that there are in
those inward parts a proportion, order, and mechanism which still
please more an attentive, inquisitive mind than external beauty can
please the eyes of the body. That inside of man--which is at once
so ghastly and horrid and so wonderful and admirable--is exactly as
it should be to denote dirt and clay wrought by a Divine hand, for
we find in it both the frailty of the creature and the art of the
Creator.


SECT. XXXVII. Of the Arms and their Use.


From the top of that precious fabric we have described hang the two
arms, which are terminated by the hands, and which bear a perfect