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the best elements of both the two great parties, Syntropists and 

 intitropists ; the Realists and the Idealists they may also be called, 

 ince the former based their views upon certain facts to which were 

 riven undue prominence, while the latter began with the recognition 

 of a great principle, which they sought to trace in all parts of the 

 body; they may also be called the Peripheralists and the Centralists, 

 since the former began their comparisons at the distal extremities of 

 the membra and made the rest conform thereto, while the latter 

 began with the evidences of symmetry in the body itself, and hoped 

 to find the same law illustrated in the appendages; and finally the 

 two schools are essentially of the Teleologists and Morphologists, since 

 the former always laid great stress upon the functional correspond- 

 ence of the pollex and primus, while the latter sought for the evi- 

 dences of an abstract, morphical law of organization, and only failed 

 in that search through lack of discrimination between morphical and 

 tclical attitude, form, and composition. 1 



Professors Huxley and Wyman are universally recognized as lead- 

 ers of these two parties: both are anatomists of the highest rank 

 and the latter has never been known to fully adopt a view which has 

 afterward proved unsound : both admit the difficulties which beset 

 this problem and, unlike some of their predecessors, make no pretence 

 of "cutting the Gordian knot "; finally both have strongly urged the 

 great importance of embryology and comparative anatomy. 





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1 Among the notes made about the time of giving a course of University Lec- 

 tures in Cambridge, Mass., I find the following: " It will be curious if the matter 

 is finally compromised by adopting the view as to the position of the limbs pro- 

 posed by Huxley, and making our own interpretation of Symmetry " ; dated Feb. 

 15th, 1868. 



