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immature one. In regard to structure, the point at 

 which the relation between the sexes is that of exact 

 parallelism, or where the mature condition of the one 

 sex accords with the undeveloped condition of the 

 other, is when reproduction is no longer accomplished 

 by budding or gemmation, but requires distinct organs. 

 Metaphysically, this relation is to be found where dis- 

 tinct individuality of the sexes first appears ; that is, 

 where we pass from the hermaphrodite to the bisexual 

 condition. 



But let us put the whole interpretation on this partial 

 undevelopment of woman. 



The types or conditions of organic life which have 

 been the most prominent in the world's history the 

 Ganoids of the first, the Dinosaurs of the second, and 

 the Mammoths of the third period have generally died 

 with their day. The line of succession has not been 

 from them. The law of anatomy and paleontology is, 

 that we must seek the point of departure of the type 

 which is to predominate in the future, at lower stages on 

 the line, in less decided forms, or in what, in scientific 

 parlance, are called generalized types. In the same 

 way, though the adults of the tailless apes are in a 

 physical sense more highly developed than their young, 

 yet the latter far more closely resemble the human 

 species in their large facial angle and shortened jaws. 



How much significance, then, is added to the law 

 uttered by Christ ! " Except ye become as little chil- 



flowers are produced by the older or more mature portions that 

 is, lower limbs or more axial regions. 



Meehan's observations coincide with those of Thury and others 

 on the origin of sexes in animals and plants, which it appears tq 

 me admit of a similar explanation, 



