"What is man but a mass of thawing clay? The ball of the human finger is but a drop congealed. The fingers and toes flow to their extent from the thawing mass of the body. Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven? Is not the hand a spreading leaf with its lobes and veins? The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, , on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop. The lip--