340 report — 1846. 



be in antagonism with the general polarizing force, and to subdue and mov 

 it in subserviency to the exigences of the resulting specific form. 



The extent to which the operation of the polarizing or vegetative-repeti 

 tion-force is so subdued in the organization of a specific animal form become; 

 the index of the grade of such species, and is directly as its ascent in the scah 

 of being. The lineaments of the common archetype are obscured in the same 

 degree : but even in man, where the specific organizing force has exerted its 

 highest power in controlling the tendency to type and in modifying each 

 part in adaptive subserviency to, or combination of power with, another part, 

 the extent to which the vegetative repetition of segments and the archetypal 

 features are traceable indicates the degree in which the general polarizing 

 force may have operated in the arrangement of the parts of the developing 

 frame : and it is not without interest or devoid of significance that such 

 evidence should be mainly manifested in the system of organs in whose tissue 

 the inorganic earthy salts most predominate. 





