text:  "Let us take for example the human foot; on examining in the first instance those of many animals we perceive the toes either very long or very short in proportion; of an equal size nearly and the claws often long and hooked inwards: now in rude sculpture and even in some of the best of the Egyptians we find little attempt at giving a character of decided variation; but on the contrary we see the foot split up with toes of an equal length and thickness; while in Greek sculpture these points characteristic of man are increased that the affinity to animals may be diminished