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Again, each iting set diverges in the opposite sense from 
its segreematas 
set, the seit to the second, third to third, and so on. Compare 
the relative iam) of the white five-rayed star orf re Be: 13, 
dotted 
We find ad the pad severally dislodged from their respective 
elders in the direction of the movement of watch-hands, the oldest 
of the young set ais to the oldest of the parental set, as above; 
the second to the second, and so on, correspondingly. 
The white eight-rayed star we find dislodged in the opposite 
Sense, but invariably the eldest next to the eldest. 
This apposition loudly pleads in favor of the idea of parentage. 
To explain why generation should take place, alternately, one side 
and the other, if once commenced laterally, it is plausible enough 
me. next in its turn, some generative power might preponderate 
other half, and it would only require a cause that the e first = 
; plain shoal should take place sideward. We know of no such 
uld always extend on all the members of an 
| ms y of no such communicated necessity beforehand, = 
S18 ar : consequent on the idea of essenti- — 
é alternation, Next, some g 1 be required to- 
* e : : 
ge jog e have ia cers 
a esha to fe inner of ateralit e idarity 
as 7a eres ontoe o> iversity aang ie 
Nor do we, beforehand, know of. any supp “ spiral,” “ lie. 
or “ whorled” agency ;—all which must remain hypothesis 
peat of conclusive, Sapam: until cle; 
roved, or superseded. 
