REMARKS ON THE FIGURES OF PLATE XXXVIII. 
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THE THORACIC ARCHETYPE, AS CONTAINING ALL ITS OWN PROPORTIONALS, HOLDS WITHIN ITSELF 
THE EQUALS OF ALL SERIAL PROPORTIONALS. 
INUS quantity, having its homologue in a part of plus quantity, refers to plus for an interpretation 
of the mode of its own present minus condition. Every serial quantity which manifests itself 
as bemg a lesser thing, may be said to ask the question of what greater or plus ens it is the part. 
Hyidently, the lesser quantity can with as little reason be regarded the equal and homologue of the 
‘greater. quantity, as it can be said to contain the greater. But judging of it, the lesser, according 
to the presential and actual facts of creation, and without attempting to outstep those facts, we 
may very safely regard the ens which is minus in series, and which has its counterpart in the 
proportional of the plus unit elsewhere existing in that same series, to be the proportional “of its 
own plus quantity, which is not now persisting because of metamorphosis and the fitness which 
requires the minus design. Now, it is not less evident that the minus unit refers to its counterpart 
in the plus unit, than it is that the plus unit may be itself degraded so as to equal the minus 
quantity. And therefore, as it is possible to conceive how plus quantity can undergo metamorphosis, 
and thereby equate itself with minus quantity, so it cannot be thought unreasonable to suppose 
that all those serial quantities which we find at present in minus condition, have actually been 
metamorphosed from serial plus originals, all equal to one another ; and this is the idea of uniformity. 
Fig. A is a thoracic proportional of such another arche- 
type as fig. B; this is self-evident : consequently, therefore, 
when we find fig. A holding series with its counterpart 
proportional of fig. B, we are then led to interpret fig. A 
to have suffered metamorphosis as to all that quantity by 
which it is minus to fig. B, and hence a comparison of 
both figures will cause us to equate the lesser quantity 
with the greater, and so to draw the circle from the costal 
element a, of fig. A, to the sternal point c¢, of the same figure. 
In fig. C we find two elemental pieces standing separate 
from each other. The piece marked a, 4, still stands in 
series at the dorsal median line; whilst the piece marked 
c, holds series with the sternal structures; both these 
pieces bear the same relation to each other as the similar 
pieces of fig. B; consequently we draw the circle which 
connects the now separate elements of fig. C, and thereby 
notice how much quantity has been metamorphosed. Fig. 
C compared with fig. B is minus the rib; hence the pieces 
marked a, 6, and c¢, in fig. C are now appearing as sepa- 
rated structures. 
Fig. D is likewise a modified proportional of the arche- 
type fig. E. The elemental quantity left remaining to fig. 
D is to be found in fig. H; the only difference apparent 
between both quantities is, that a slight subtraction of 
quantity has separated the rib a, and the sternal piece c, 
in fig. D; and fig. F is only various to the archetype 
quantity E by the simple subtraction of a quantity 
between a, the costa, and c, the sternal element of fig. F. 
Evidently it is by metamorphosis of quantity that c, has 
been separated from aa, of fig. F. 
Fig. G compared with fig. H proves that G is a propor- 
tional of H; again, fig. I, whose separated elements 
marked a, 6, and c, we have united by the circle, proves 
itself to be a form metamorphosed from such a quantity 
as the archetype H. 
So, likewise, fig. K is a proportional of the archetype 
quantity fig. L, and in the same reading fig. M may be 
included, for the now separated pieces, a, 6, and c, of fig. 
M may be connected by the circle, just as the cost of fig. 
L connect its proportionals marked a, 4, and c. 
Even fig. N is a proportional of an archetype quantity 
equal to fig. O, for though the nodule 4, of fig. N alone 
remains after the metamorphosis of the archetype, still 
this nodule is homologous to and in series with the part 
