Hagen.] 192 [Dec. S, 



entiation of their common source, whence it results, that in reproduc- 

 ing themselves by sexual union, though the young begin at the egg 

 (representing the earth) they do not, as the earth did, each develop 

 all forms of terrestrial life, but are restricted, each, to the develop- 

 ment of its own forms only ; and, moreover, this primordial differen- 

 tiation seems to have resulted in a sexual bar, rendering impossible 

 the production of permanent intermediate lineages, though often 

 admitting the production of sterile offspring (known as hybrids), be- 

 tween lineages closely allied in structure. Within its own limits 

 there is ample evidence that each primordial form is susceptible of 

 variation, often very great, but never without law, depending for the 

 special form it assumes in each given case: 1, upon the invariability 

 of its own Logos or specific ratio of potentials ; 2, upon Organists, in- 

 volving the kind of its parasitism, and its changes from one kind of 

 parasitism to another, necessarily accompanied by " Natural Selec- 

 tion "; and, 3, upon the Universal Law of Development, which involves 

 both of the preceding principles, 1 and 2, and adds Evolution, by 

 which the potentials of fhe integral origin are realized as phenomena, 

 according to their ratios, in the Logos, in such wise that the Special 

 and the General succeed the Homosynthetic: Evolution thus showing 

 tself, as a progress from Homosynthesis to Heterosynthesis, from inte- 

 gration to disintegration, from what is " Organic " to what is " Inor- 

 ganic"; having the integral- for its limit of origin, and the elemental 

 for its limit of progress ; while between these limits development is 

 capable of manifesting a vast variety of forms, restricted by the 

 specific possibilities of the Logos, on' the one hand, and by the spe- 

 cific actualities of Parasitism, on the other: 1 the maximum of vari- 

 ability being near the limit of origin, the minimum near the limit of 

 progress. 



The Origin of the " Tailed Man." Dy Dr. H. Hagen. 



Perhaps the following short communication concerning the fab- 

 ulous " tailed man," often mentioned in the last century, and even 

 later, will be of some interest to the Society. 



In endeavoring to copy from a number of old works the figures 

 quoted as belonging to the so-called tailed man, the fact became grad- 



1 These views are the development of those communicated to the Elliott Society 

 of Charleston, South Carolina, May 15th, 1857, an abstract of which will be found 

 In that Society's Proceedings, Vol. I, p. 222. 



