based on the principle of Cephalization—Herbivores. 181 
' that there is centralized control over all molecular forces, deter- 
mining the limits, nature and condition of the organism.” 
I would not be understood as including Man’s higher nature 
among the attributes that.can be developed out of simple mat- 
ter and cephalized life. For Man evinces in his power to com- 
prehend Nature’s laws and use them for his physical, intellectual 
and moral progress, that he is above Nature. He shows in his 
thoughts of the infinite—in his recognition of an omnipotent 
reator, (or, as well, in his efforts to reason himself out of this 
recognition, or into the substitution of an infinite Nature)—in 
his sense o obligation to moral law, and law as emanating from 
an infinite God—in his aspirations towards the infinite—in 
his hopes reaching into the indefinite future—and in his capa. 
bility of indefinite development, that he has within him an 
element of the infinite, a spiritual element, which places him 
above nature, constitutes his likeness to his Creator, and assures 
him of a future of spiritual existence apart from matter and its 
inferior developments. 
6. Distinction of Megasthenes and Microsthenes.—The fact stated 
with regard to the powerful life-system of the Whale affords aid 
towards a definite understanding of the distinction between the 
great groups of Megasthenes and Microsthenes. ‘The subdivi- 
sions of these groups are mentioned in a note to page 159, and 
m1 &amanner to exhibit their parallelism :—the Quadramanes and 
Chiropters being in one line, since they have long been regarded 
48 correlates in many of their characters; so Carnivores and 
Insectivores in. the second; Herbivores and Rodents in the 
ird; and Mutilates and Edentates in the fourth. Carnivores 
and Insectivores are both carnivorous and both prosthenic tribes. 
Herbivores and Rodents are both herbivorous, and the larger 
and most characteristic part of the former and all of the latter 
are metasthenic. Mutilates and Edentates are both degradational 
types; the latter, like the former, sometimes multiplicate an 
elementalized in’ their teeth, sometimes wholly elliptical as to 
teeth, sometimes vast in amplification; and bearing, through all 
their stracty re, evidence of great inferiority among the placental 
ammals, The mean sizes of the Megasthenes and Microsthenes 
have been shown to be about as 
cies, they still retain this peculiar feature of the Megasthenic 
type. : 
2 This iden is illustrated by reference to the nature of coral polyps in the wri- 
ter’s Report on Zoophytes, ato, 184 
Att. Jour. Sor—Szconp Sznms, Vou. XXXVI, No. 110—Mance, 1864. 
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