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scheme." 1 "And thus, as in the former leets, 

 are the triple tribe of under-brains walled off 

 from the Brain of Man. 3 A third time there 

 falls a voice from the Excellent Glory : ' One 

 shall be taken, and three shall be left.' " 



Below the fish, how powerless comparatively, 

 all creatures are ! The primates of sub-verte- 

 brate nature are the ant and the bee. Most 

 mollusks are anchored to one spot for life, and 

 the bulkiest of crustaceans, shorn of other 

 locomotion, could only crawl in shallow waters 

 among his rocks and sands. The advent of 

 the backbone is the advent of animal power : 

 the type of an all-pervading and resistless 

 energy. The wing of the eagle, the jaw of 



1 " The Three Barriers : Notes on Mr. Darwin's ' Origin 

 of Species.'" Blackwood & Sons. Pp. 88, et seqq. To 

 the highly-gifted author of this brilliant little book a 

 book as admirable in method as unanswerable in effect 

 I gratefully record my obligations. 



2 " By a purely inductive process, the sub-human mam- 

 malia have been carefully distributed into the wave- 

 brained, the smooth-brained, and the loose-brained, re- 

 presented respectively by the ape, the beaver, and the 

 kangaroo ; with a result, so far as the two departments 

 of science are comparable, like that of the application of 

 Kepler's laws to the planetary motions : the subjects of 

 the classification fall, for the first time, into their true 

 places a mob of animals becomes a regular army." 



