anthropurgic

[Gr. ἀνθρωπουργος an thro pour gos) = making man; but intended by Bentham to signify operated on by man; ἄνθρωπος ( anthropos ) = man; * ἔργω ( ergo ) = to do work.) (For def. see example.) "Thus Natural History and Natural Philosophy are respectively represented by Physiurgic Somatology and Anthropurgic Somatology; the one signifying the science of bodies, in so far as operated operated upon in the course of nature, without the intervention of man; the other, the science of bodies so far as man, by his knowledge of the convertible powers of nature, is able to operate upon them."-Bowring: Bentham's Works, Introd., § 6, vol. 1, p. 16.