Nature taught men out to dodge a wound before they learned the fit of shield to arm. But battling hand to hand and slashing limbs, fouling the foe in blood, these antedate the flight of shining javelins. They could not evolve for the sake of use be so designed. And all the organs I feel sure, were there before their use developed. and the ears were fashioned long before a sound was heard.
No speech before the tongue was made, but tongues began long before speech were uttered. There could be no such thing as sight before the eyes were formed. Nature had no such aim, but what was born creates the use. All such argument, all such interpretation is perverse, fallacious, puts the cart before the horse. Don't think that arms dangled from shoulders and branched out in hands with fingers at their ends, both right and left, for us to do whatever need required for our survival. Don't suppose our thigh bones fitted our shin bones and our shins our ankles so that we might take steps. Don't think our eyes, our bright and shining eyes, were made for us to look ahead with.
“Another fallacy comes creeping in whose errors you should be meticulous in trying to avoid.
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