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thereby, being enabled to act individually, or conjointly, 

 according to the necessities, of one, or both, by absolutely 

 adjusted means, material and dynamic. 



Ossification, viewed thus, becomes the concluding link 

 in the chain of evolutionary processes, involved in the 

 growth of the human organism, from its original uni- 

 cellular protoplasmic elements, to its voluntary motile 

 condition being the culminating skeletal " groundwork," 

 on which is erected, the greatest organic superstructure 

 yet produced, in the meantime overshadowing, and 

 dwarfing, all others, however perfectly they may be 

 adapted, to their environment, and to carry out the 

 peculiar work of their individual and communal, destiny. 



With an articulate and movable framework, a motive 

 machinery to bind together, and give it power of move- 

 ment, a dynamic agency to supply the energy, and a 

 regulative and administrative, consciousness, to guide its 

 conduct, the human organism, or machine, is capable of 

 performing work, of a higher character, than has been 

 attainable by the highest types of lower organisms, and, 

 apparently, a much higher still, than has yet been accom- 

 plished by the race, at, even, its most advanced periods of 

 civilisation. 



