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them. Platonic and Peripatetic conceptions are far indeed 

 from having been overthrown by the rising tide of a revived 

 Ionian philosophy — a flood of which has slightly covered part 

 of our land, and deeply submerged German}^ Philosophical 

 anatomy, types, divine prototypal ideas are one by one 

 emerging and reappearing, refreshed and invigorated by the 

 bath of Darwinian Evolutionism through which they have 

 been made to pass. It is again becoming manifest that 

 nature, when broadly surveyed, confirms and accords with 

 the speculations of philosophy, though never without a 

 certain want of minute agreement, so opening fresh vistas, 

 which invite the intellect to further advance, and to the 

 solution of more and more recondite problems which it is the 

 task of philosophical anatomy perpetually to strive after, to 

 elucidate in part, but never, in this life, exhaustively to 

 solve. 



