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the knowledge of such a being as Man must have 

 existed before Man appeared. For the Divine 

 mind which planned the Archetype also foreknew 

 all its modifications. 



' The Archetypal idea was manifested in the 

 flesh, under divers such modifications, upon this 

 planet, long prior to the existence of those animal 

 species that actually exemplify it. 



1 To what natural laws or secondary causes 

 the orderly succession and progression of such 

 organic phenomena may have been committed we 

 are yet ignorant. But if, without derogation of 

 the Divine power, we may conceive the existence 

 of such ministers, and personify them by the term 

 " Nature," we learn from the past history of our 

 globe that she has advanced with slow and 

 stately steps, guided by the archetypal light, 

 amidst the wreck of worlds, from the first embodi- 

 ment of the Vertebrate idea under its old Ichthyic 

 vestment, until it became arrayed in the glorious 

 garb of the Human form.' 5 



Those who know Owen's mind only on the 

 side reflected in the exact observations, the 

 clear-headed and sagacious interpretations, of the 

 anatomical and palaeontological memoirs, should 

 ponder over these and other passages of like 

 tenor, if they wish to form a just judgment about 

 the position which he took up in morphology ; and, 

 later, in regard to the Darwinian revivification 



5 On the Nature of Limbs, pp. 85, 86. 1849. 



