34 Prof. Owen on Life and Species. 
rable, equally rejecting the idea of new creations,* opposed to : | 
Cuvier’s inductive treatment of the question the following ex- 
pression of belief :—Je ne doute pas que les animaux vivants — 
Sten nD hit ‘ 
Saint-Hilaire expressly states :—‘ Je crois que les temps d’un 
venus , t 
The main collateral questions argued in these debates, to ~ 
some of which I listened, and to all the reports and consequent — 
pamphlets relating thereto devoted intense attention, appea 
to me to be the following :-— : 
Unity of Plan or Final purpose, as a governing condition of 
organic development ? 
eries of Species, uninterrupted or broken by intervals ? 
t: : 7 
§ 423. Homology or Teleology ?—Cuvier held the work of 
figurative language, moreover, in which contemporary anato- 
. 
Si eigen ee pporters. 
jich diseiples of the school of Schelling illustrated, in the 
mal structures, the t ndental idea of ‘ the repetition of 
ty, 
ae ies ay 
, déja contraire aux plus anciennes données historiques, 
x lumiéres de la raison naturelle qu’aux spéculations plus 
. 210. 
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