THE WONDERS OF LIFE 



the civilized man and the art critic. The stem-history 

 of man and his organs, which explains to us in anthro- 

 pogeny the gradual rise from lower to higher forms by 

 the interaction of heredity and adaptation, also finds an 

 application in the history of aesthetics and ornamenta- 

 tion. It teaches us how feeling, taste, emotion, and art 

 have been gradually evolved. On the other hand, we 

 have corresponding to this evolutionary series the scale 

 of the typical forms which lie at the root of the real 

 forms of bodies both in nature and art. 



