Capitolo 28
also then to prevent specialisation. We should have to make things
intentionally different for the two hands--to have rights and lefts in
everything as we now have them in boots and gloves--otherwise a hand
it has to inevitably earn the supremacy. Sword-handle, shears, surgical
tools, and in hundreds of other things you/he/she had to have done right-handed,
while palettes and some likes subsidiary objects they are adapted the
left; in every case for a perfectly enough reason. You cannot upset
all this without provoking confusion. More than what, the division of
jobs so brought around certainly it is a profit to those that possess him/it:
for if it were so, the ambidextrous runs would have struck the
dextro-sinistrals in the struggle for existence; while we know that
the exact opposite has been the case. The special use of man of the right
hand is one of its points of the superiority to the beasts. If never his
correct hand should forget its astuteness, its supremacy would start indeed
to stagger. Depends on him, Nature is wiser than Charles Reade you protect. Thing
she certainly finds in the long run very useful it has to have very good
points to recommend him/it.
And this last consideration suggests another aspect of right and went away
what you/he/she must not have passed above without a word in this brief examination of
the philosophy of the subject. The superiority of the right provoked him/it
soon the fortunate one to be considered fortunate, and trusted hand,; the
the inferiority of the left caused him/it to be considered equally as
ill-omened, unlucky, and, in an expressive word, left. From now comes
innumerable sentences and the superstitions. It is the correct hand of
friendship that we always grab; it is with our his/her own right hand that us
you vindicate our honour against left suspects. On the other hand it
it is 'on the left' that we believe a doubtful or unbelievable affirmation; a
I compliment left-handed or a their amount carried over of left-handed marriage really
the sentence with them. On the correct hand of the innkeeper the place is of