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ice Siberian elephant Fossil bones in caves The mas- 

 todon Coral converted into calcedony or cornelian, &c. 



Many organs often combined to effect a common purpose 

 SYSTEM Errors in the use of the word system. 



The peculiar office or power of an organ or system is called 

 its FUNCTION Errors resulting from the false application 

 of the term, a source of erroneous opinions in relation to 

 the mind and materialism. 



Parentage of all living things Transmission of the peculiari- 

 ties of the race, and even of the individual from parent to 

 offspring Foundation of permanent varieties and new 

 races The varieties of the apple from the original crab- 

 apple. 

 Disposition of accidental races or varieties to return, if 



neglected, to the original condition. 

 The garden flower grown wild. 



Nature adapts the race to circumstances Man adapts circum- 

 stances to the race Importance of continued culture. 



Nature a foe to revolutions Limits of the hereditary pecu- 

 liarities established by culture Fixedness of species. 



LECTURE II. 



Subject cojitin ued. Active Growth of Living Things compared 

 with the Passive Growth of Inanimate Things. 



Diminutive origin and slow increase of size in living things. 

 They never grow by adding fresh matter from without to their 



surface like minerals. 



Apparent exceptions Seemingly inorganic character of the 

 outer bark of plants and the scarf skin and its appendages 

 (hair, horn, nails, &c.) in animals. The constant wearing 

 and growth of these substances. The matter for their 

 growth supplied from within the living body. 



The formation of bark The phenomena of a blister The 

 periodical shedding of the covering of crabs, snakes and 

 insects Man seems to shed his scarf skin annually A 

 new cover always formed before the old is cast off Per- 

 manent horns of cattle Temporary horns of deer. 



