REMARKS ON THE FIGURES OF PLATE XXXIX. 
WHERE THE THORACIC ARCHETYPE PERSISTS IN SERIES THE MINUS VARIETY DOES NOT EXIST. BUT WHERE 
THIS LATTER OCCURS IN SERIES, THERE THE FULL THORACIC ARCHETYPE IS WANTING. 
ih gaa like an intelligence, adapts her own person to suit with all exigencies. Pressing necessity 
or real occasion causes her person to yield place. When her integrity or unbroken whole 
obstructs the moving principle of design, she, in her entity or entirety, submits herself to metamorphosis ; 
and where she once stood in full quantity she now manifests herself as proportional variety. Necessity 
is the law which governs Nature. Design is a necessity, and as it becomes impossible to demonstrate the 
nihil frustra, so is it also impossible to demonstrate that existence or entity in Nature which is not the 
liege subject of sovereign and all-potent forethought. Nature as entity or the measurable, mathematically 
demonstrable body, is impressionable, and her plastic mould bears out in bold relief the stamp of a design. 
Design is existent in and upon the body of Nature. 
author of design, apart from Nature ? 
The vertebral pieces marked a 4, of fig. A is equal to a 
cervical quantity. But we see that the pieces a 6, of fig. 
A together with the piece marked a c, of fig. A are both 
found in the archetype quantity fig. B, and therefore it is 
that we say fig. A in both its existing elements is a pro- 
portional of fig. B, and so we have connected the anterior 
and posterior elements of fig. A by the circle, thus equating 
it with the whole quantity fig. B. Now fig. C is a cervical 
form whose autogenous costal elements a, have been pro- 
duced through the circle further than we ordinarily find 
them, and at the median line in front of fig. C we find an 
elemental piece of the hyoid apparatus marked c, there- 
fore we have drawn the circle complete from the costa a, 
to the piece c, and thus equated fig. C with the whole 
quantity of fig. B the archetype. 
Fig D is the eighth thoracic quantity, its coste a, are 
separated from the sternal piece c, by subtraction of 
elementary part, but still fig. D refers to its counterpart 
fig. H, and so in like manner does fig. F, the ninth thoracic 
quantity, whose costal arms a, are separated from the 
ziphoid sternal piece ¢, by the like subtraction of ele- 
mental substance. 
Fig. Gis equal to a lumbar form, in front of which | 
happens the piece ¢, produced at the ventral median line. 
The circle connects these separate pieces, and so fig. G 
is equated with the archetype H. Now fig. I is a lumbar 
form whose autogenous elements a, have been produced 
through the circle farther than usual, thereby approaching 
to the ventral median line where we find the piece c. 
Who shall undertake to demonstrate design, or the 
The circle in hke manner connects these separate pieces, 
and thus equates fig. I with the whole quantity fig. H. 
Fig. K is equal to a sacral vertebra, and the circle con- 
nects the anterior piece a c, with the posterior piece a 4, 
thus equating it with fig. I, which is the archetype, and 
contains elements homologous to those persisting in fig. K. 
Again in fig. M we see-a sacral form, the autogenous pieces, 
a, of which may be connected by drawing the circle towards 
the median line in front, where we find ac, the pubic 
bones. 
Fig. N, as to its elemental quantity marked 4, equals the 
last caudal nodule; the element 4, holds series with the 
centrum 86, of fig. O, and therefore it is that we have 
described in connection with 4, of fig. N that archetype 
quantity of which it is minus. Fig. P. likewise is a caudal 
quantity ; the elemental nucleus 6, has described around it 
that original to which it refers; and so when we draw the 
circle after the manner of fig. O we then meet, at the 
median line in front, the piece marked @ e, which is the 
Ischiadic bone. 
In all the opposite figures, the homologous elemental 
pieces bear similar letters, and it will be seen that the 
common median line cleaves the pieces marked 8, and ce, 
through their centres; also that whatever be the amount 
of metamorphosis to which the archetype quantity has 
been subjected, still the proportional 4, is seen to hold 
serial order with 0, and the elemental structure marked c, 
stands in series with ¢ ; so likewise does the costa a, happen 
in series with a, whenever the costa is persistent ; and even 
