Friday, August 24, 2007

Get a Sight of the naked Body

One motif in the book I'm finishing concerns parallels between humans and horses, especially as they apply to questions of eugenic import. I've got a lot of really quite bizarre and interesting material, but one of my favorite passages comes from a rather demented book by Timothy Nourse, A Discourse Upon the Nature and Faculties of Man (1686):

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