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resumption of all former Life, even that of the 

 Plant, on which it largely feeds, a kind of re- 

 capitulation of vital forms from the proto- 

 plasmic starting-point. What a museum of 

 antiquities is dug out of our body by the evo- 

 lutionist, far more varied and older than 

 those of Troy and Mycenae ! And still the ex- 

 cavation is going on with new discoveries. 



Thus the Formative Process of Animal Life 

 returns to its very beginning and re-enacts 

 its whole evolutionary history in each individ- 

 ual, which physically bears in itself what its 

 race has gone through and transcended. The 

 Form is the storehouse of the archives of its 

 past; so much we can see, even if the record 

 has just begun to be deciphered. The outer 

 differentiation of the animal Organism just 

 cited indicates three great stages of Life 's de- 

 velopment which are now organically united 

 in the one process of the Animal as a whole. 



At present, then, we have to consider this 

 outer differentiation which helps us organize 

 first the animal Form Trunk, Extremities 

 and Head. Now these, in contrast to bi-lateral 

 symmetry, may be deemed a division cross- 

 wise rather than lengthwise, the threefold in- 

 stead of the twofold division the arm being 

 somewhat refractory, having evolved to a 

 member distinct from the leg. Of course we 

 have in mind the typical human organism, to- 



