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organization, continues to live and grow as a distinct animal. 

 It, therefore, corresponds to the primitive cellular structure of 

 the impregnated ova of the higher animals. In the higher 

 forms of the Radiata, the organs, with their functional opera- 

 tions, are perceptibly more distinct from each other. In the 

 Articulata, there is still more definite association of the ele- 

 ments of organs into their distinct and appropriate forms ; but 

 this association is still so imperfect, that if the lobster or 

 crab, for example, loses a claw, it eliminates from other por- 

 tions of its system elements which form another claw thus 

 showing that the claw-principle, so to speak, previously ex- 

 isted undeveloped, in the other parts of the organism, by a 

 draft upon which the recuperation is now produced. And so 

 in each succeeding class in the ascending scale of animal crea- 

 tions, heart becomes more distinctly heart, brain becomes 

 more distinctly brain, and all the other organs become corre- 

 spondingly more distinct and highly developed, and more free 

 from those particles which properly belong to other organs, 

 until the perfection of living organization is attained in the 

 perfected human form, which may be considered as the whole 

 Animal Kingdom in the aggregate, with something more be- 

 sides. 



And so, reducing these specific subjects of contemplation to 

 one comprehensive view, it may be said, that in the beginning 

 the material elements of man, animal, vegetable, mineral, 

 planet, sun, and firmament, existed in common interdiffusion 

 in the great, universal, and undistinguishable mass of nebu- 

 lous matter, in such a way that each part was lost in all other 

 parts. The great mass, then, formed, as it were, one grand 

 Polypus, or one grand ovum, corresponding to the ovum of an 

 animal, and from it, after fecundation, and by means of a con- 

 stant incubative and superior influence, the ultimate develop- 



