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But amid instruction on the corporeal and familiar, Comenius again injects the abstract and invisible into his picture book with Chapter 43, a discussion of "The Soul of Man." A dotted outline of a human, opening his arms as if to welcome the students' gaze, stands at the top of the page. as the Canary-bird, the Chaffinch, the Goldfinch, the Siskin, the Linnet, the little Titmouse, the Wood-wall, the Robin-red-breast, the Hedge-sparrow, &c. He again opts for the Biblical account and addresses Adam and Eve before more immediate topics like "The Outward Parts of a Man," where we learn that women have "two Dugs, with Nipples" and that below the stomach we find "the Groyn and the privities." The anatomical terminology is vast, including words for each finger and for a number of bones in the body. After thirty-five chapters on theology, elements, plants, and animals, Comenius finally introduces man.
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