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Show WHY THE FINGERS ARE NOT OF A LENGTH-A master, in illustrating on this question, made his scholar grasp a ball of ivory to show that the points of his fingers are equal. It would have been better says Sir Charles Bell, had he closed his fingers upon his palm, and then asked whether or not they correspond. The difference in the length of the fingers serves a thousand ends adapting the form of the hand and fingers to different purposes, as for holding a rod, a switch, a hammer, a pen, a pencil, engraving tools, etc., in all of which a secure hold and freedom of motion are admirably combined. |