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the fact that living things seem simply varieties of one 

 common type. 



" If we once recognise," says Goethe, " that the creative 

 spirit brings into being and shapes the evolution of the more 

 perfect organic creatures according to a general scheme, is it 

 altogether impossible to represent this original plan if not 

 to the senses at least to the mind. . . P" 1 



Such an interpretation of the unity of plan reaches 

 perhaps beyond the bounds of science. 



1 Cotta ed., ix., p. 490. 



