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the "essential unity" underlying the apparent diversi- 

 ties of Nature within that vast domain of the Kingdom 

 of Fauna, which is obviously outside the later creation 

 of a vertebrate Animalia. 



Larva 



Instar 



Imago 



Fig. 5. Illustrating the debatable continuity of a 12-segmented 

 structure throughout the metamorphosis. 



The futurist's dogmatic CREDO of creative progress, 

 " For him who would meritoriously pass his histo- 

 " logical examinations, and qualify as a Professor and 

 " Doctor of Science, above all it is necessary that he 

 lt should acknowledge the unicellularity of the primae- 

 " val OVUM (or egg), whence proceeds the seventeen- 

 u segmented boneless ANNELID (or worm), out of 

 "which there develops the quadrangular articulated 



