"THE Animal Kingdom is only a dismemberment of the highest 

 animal, i.e. of man." 



OKEN. 



"Few views of the relations existing in the organic world have 

 received so much approbation as this : that the higher animal forms, 

 in the several stages of development of the individual, from the be- 

 ginning of its existence to its complete formation, correspond to the 

 permanent forms in the animal series, and that the development of 

 the several animals follows the same laws as those of the entire ani- 

 mal series ; that, consequently, the more highly organized animal, in 

 its individual development passes in all that is essential through the 

 stages that are permanent below it, so that the periodical differences 

 of the individual may be reduced to the differences of the permanent 

 animal forms. The different animal forms do not present one uni- 

 serial development, from the monad up to man." 



K. E. VON BAEB. 



"All these divisions blend into each other at their confines, and 

 form a circle In this manner we proceed, beginning with the higher 

 groups, and descending to the lower, until at length we descend to 

 the genera, properly so called, and reach, at last, the species ; every 

 group, whether large or small, forming a circle of its own. Thus, 

 there are circles within circles, wheels within wheels, an infinite 

 number of complicated relations ; but all regulated by one simple 

 and uniform principle, that is, the circularity of every group." 



McLEAY. 



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