92 GLAUCUS; OR, 



successive acts of tliouglit and will in some personal 

 mind ; which, however boundlessly rich and powerful, 

 is still the Arclietype of the human mind; and there- 

 fore (for to this I boldly confess I have been all 

 along tending) probably capable, without violence 

 to its properties, of becommg, like the human mind, 



INCARNATE. 



This progress, then, in the divine works, though 

 tending ever to perfection in the very highest sense, 

 need not be always forward and upward, according 

 to the laws of comparative anatomy. It is possible, 

 therefore, on the one hand, that the idea of the 

 Chrysanthellum, and its congeners Scolanthus, and 

 Synapta, and the lately-discovered Cerianthus Lloydii 

 of the Menai Straits, (an exquisite creature, whom 

 you may see in one of the tanks at the Zoological 

 Gardens), has been developed downwards into the 

 far lower Actinia, as well as upwards into the higher 

 Holothurians ; just as the idea of a fish was first 

 realized in the highest type of that class, and not, as 

 has been too hastily supposed, in the lowest ; for it 

 is now discovered that the sharks, the earliest of fish. 



