210 THE REIGN OF LAW. 



sibly escape recognition even by the rudest human 

 mind, formed as that Mind is to see Order, and to 

 work for it, and to admire it. But though instinct 

 is enough to give us the general idea, and to trace 

 it in a thousand instances where it can hardly be 

 overlooked, yet it needs close and laborious study, 

 and high powers of analysis and of thought, to 

 trace correctly the true Order and Plan through 

 the fine and subtle passages of Nature. It would 

 have astonished those poor savages of Africa to be 

 told, as is the truth, that if they wished to find in 

 the Ostrich the parts corresponding to their own 

 middle finger, or ring-finger, or any other finger, 

 they must look not to the toes of the Ostrich but 

 to her little aborted wings, which though useless 

 for the purposes of flight are still retained as repre- 

 senting the wings of other Birds, and the forearms 

 of all the Mammals. 



For here we come upon the interchange and 

 crossing as it were of two distinct ideas, which 

 seem to stand the one as the warp and the 

 other as the woof in the fabrics of Organic Life. 

 There is the idea of Homology in Structure and 

 the idea of Analogy in Use. The one represents 



