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scientifically far apart, filling np a fresh link in the 

 great chain, or rather the great network, of zoological 

 classification. For here we have a simple, and, as 

 it were, crude form ; of w^hich, if we dared to in- 

 dulge in reveries, we might say that the Divine 

 Word realized it before either sea-anemones or 

 Holothurians, and then went on to perfect the idea 

 contained in it in two different directions ; dividing 

 it into two different families, and making on its 

 model, by adding new organs, and taking away old 

 ones, in one direction the whole family of Actinise 

 (sea-anemones), and in a quite opposite one the 

 Holothiirise, those strange sea-cucumbers, with their 

 mouth-fringe of feathery gills, of which you shall 

 see some anon. Not (understand well) that there 

 has been any " transmutation " or " development 

 of species" (of individuals, as it ought honestly to 

 be called, if the notion is intended to represent 

 a sujoposed fact), — a theory as unsupported by ex- 

 periment and induction, as it is by a priori reason : 

 but that there has been, in the Creative Mind, as 

 it gave life to new species, a development of the 



