REMARKS ON THE FIGURES OF PLATE XX. 
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THE NORMAL AND ABNORMAL OSSEOUS QUANTITIES OF SERIES ARE PROPORTIONALS OF THE PLUS ARCHETYPE 
ea CEN PEN TAL Anatomy has for its object the comprehension of that whole quantity which is the 
sum and substance of unity. Its comparisons lead onwards to that generalisation or abstract view 
which pervades many particulars. It is taught under the light of comparison and by the actuality of 
similitude, that all particulars point, in mass, to the figure of a whole quantity or unity, which, when it has 
recognised in Combined shape as an integer or plus structure, it then turns into the track of a law of 
formation, since it easily discerns how the disintegration of unity, or the whole, can furnish all diversity and 
the parts. The whole quantity contains all the parts, and therefore it is that those parts admit of being 
nonihyeteel so as to recreate the figure of the whole quantity, and this is the aim of all comparative 
reasoning. The comparison of parts or fragments as such will never rise above specific distinctions, but the 
comparison of fragments, having for its ultimate aim the reconstruction of the whole by the coaptation of all 
its relationary parts, is a process of the reason which promises a final result. Skeleton quantities are the 
parts of unity, or a whole ; hence, the comparison of such quantities, parts, or fragments, conducted under 
the search of specific differences, may be accounted a theme which takes a lease of infinity and submits to 
all the future a task as boundless as that which has busied all the past. 
the parts, forasmuch as those parts may vary as to quantity in infinitum. 
Difformity is the characteristic of 
But unity is that finite whole 
quantity which the natural relationship of the parts with one another make a completed ens. 
The fitting and the anomalous forms are what we under- 
stand to be the normal and abnormal products. Cervical 
and lumbar vertebrze, preceding and succeeding the tho- 
racic region of series is the fitting condition of develop-° 
ment for a mammal spinal axis. There is no one who 
will venture a doubt as to the design of nature in thus 
fashioning the fitness of form. We at once see it, we 
know it, and we acknowledge the fitness; but still we 
remain inquisitive about the law which produces it: and 
we here assert, that this law is one which shapes the 
required design from an original archetype series of figures, 
such as those standing at the thorax; also that the law is 
one of metamorphosis, which degrades the form of the 
archetype to fitting proportionals ; also that the cervical or 
lumbar anomaly of costal form is nothing more mysterious 
than being a proportional of the archetype quantity left 
standing of larger dimension than is ordinarily presented to 
the anatomist’s observation. Hence we infer that the form, 
which is anomalous to the type human, is not anomalous 
to the transcendent type of unity, from the figure of which 
latter all variety is struck out, and which varieties are 
nothing more than proportionals of archetype quantity. 
Figs. A’ A” A” represent different conditions of develop- 
ment seen in the seventh cervical unit of series. Fig. A’ 
is a proportional of fig. A”. 
Figs. B’ B’ B’” represent homologous conditions of de- 
velopment proper to the first thoracic unit, which is the 
eighth unit of the spinal series. Fig. B’ is homologue of 
fie. Bos and figs AA” A” are the proportionals of such as 
fig. B’. 
Figs C’C” C” are different conditions of development, 
seen in the first lumbar vertebra, which is the twentieth 
unit of spinal series. Fig. C’ is the proportional of fig. C’”’, 
and this is a proportional of fig. B’; that is to say, of the 
homologue of fig. B’. 
Figs. D’ D” D” are different conditions of the first 
sacral vertebra, which is the twenty-fifth unit of spinal 
series. Fig. D’ is the proportional homologue of fig. is 
and this is the proportional of fig. B’ also. 
Figs. EH’ E” E” are various conditions of the first caudal 
vertebra, which is the thirtieth unit of spinal series. Fig. 
FE’ is a proportional of fig. K’’, and this is a proportional 
of fig. B’. 
Figs. EF’ F’ F’” are various conditions of the last caudal 
bone, which is the thirty-second or thirty-third unit of spinal 
series. Fig. FE’ is a proportional of fig. F’’, and this is a 
proportional of fig. B’. . 
In figs. A’A” A”, therefore, we see that the seventh 
cervical unit is only created proportionally various to itself 
by the very same rule of metamorphosis which renders 
figs. A’ B’C’ D’ E’ and F” proportionally various to each 
other. 
