ANTHROPOLOGY, Anthropologia, a Discourse or Treatise upon Man, or Human Nature. Anthropology includes the Consideration both of the Human Body and Soul, with the Laws of their Union, and the Effects thereof, as Sensation, Motion, etc. See BODY, SOUL, SENSATION, MOTION, etc. Yet Dr. Drake entitles his Anatomy of the Human Body, Anthropologia. See ANATOMY. The Word is compounded of ἄνθρωπος, Man, and λόγος, Discourse.
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