59) REMARKS ON THE FIGURES OF PLATE XL. 
vertebral quantities hold together in dorsal series. Like- 
wise we find that the costal arches hold their own lateral 
serial order. Between serial vertebre there happens no 
hiatus. Between serial thoracic coste no hiatus occurs 
either. But between thoracic coste and the maxilla above 
them, happens the cervical gap in series, such as we find 
it also between the thoracic coste and the pubic arches 
where the ventral gap or hiatus happens. Do we find 
in the recent form any traces of those costo-sternal quanti- } 
ties which may be said to have suffered metamorphosis at 
cervix and venter? Fig. B answers this question, and 
Nature herself responds to the same. 
In fig. B, at the cervical region, where we already know 
that costal quantity has been subtracted in furtherance of 
the special fitness required for human formation, we there 
discover the hyoid apparatus—the principal organ of voice, 
and one which is also subservient to respiration. Costal 
quantity has been metamorphosed, and laryngeal quantity 
stands in its place. What then is the interpretation? Is 
it that the latter has been modified from the former ? 
In fig. B, again, at the ventral region where costal 
quantity has been also subtracted in accordance with 
special fitness for the parturient or digestive functions, 
together with mechanical design, we find the ventral walls 
intersected with fibrous bands which pliantly brace toge- 
ther those yielding structures composing this locality of 
series, and that these bands actually figure before the eye 
the very sentence of costal metamorphosis. The linea alba 
continues the sternal median line through the abdomen, 
and becomes fixed to the symphysis pubis, whereas the 
linee transverse hold series with the thoracic coste, and 
sketch the contimuation of such series through the ab- 
domen as far down as the pubic arch which bounds the 
costal series below. 
We may observe, therefore, in reference to fig. B as it 
stands, that laryngeal quantity appears at that locality 
where costo-sternal quantity is subtracted. We notice, 
also, that sternal quantity closes in before the costal 
quantity, which persists for the thoracic region of series. 
We also observe, that at the abdominal region from 
whence costo-sternal quantity has also been subtracted, 
appear the fibrous bands named linea alba and linez 
transverse ; and again that opposite to the sacral position 
where costal quantity has also suffered metamorphosis, 
appear the pubic and ischiadic arches. What then are 
the inferences to be drawn from this serial order of meta- 
morphosed original and of recreated special structure? 
If the anatomist is led to conclude from the rule of serial 
creation, that it is original plus uniformity which has been 
subjected to mutations such as are required for special 
plan, and that what was once, in archetype condition, a 
continued series of costo-vertebral circles, does now present 
certain alternating minus specialities of formation, such as 
a laryngeal minus apparatus marked a, b, c, succeeded 
by a costo-sternal plus apparatus. marked 8 d, 9 e, 107, 
and this succeeded by an abdominal minus series marked 
20, 21, 22, 23, 24; this again, succeeded by a pubic 
apparatus marked 25, 26—when such serial order invites 
to comparative interpretation, we may venture the opinion 
that this interpretation cannot be rendered otherwise 
than as the work of Nature speaks her own law, namely, 
that original full quantity has suffered metamorphosis, 
and that the plus costo-vertebral archetypes have been 
rendered specially minus in several localities of series. 
The comparative research carried through the animal 
kingdom, will shew ample reason for applying to the 
specialty. of fig. B the following reading, viz., that as the 
costo-vertebral persistent archetypes lettered 8, 9, 10, &c., 
refer to the sternal pieces d, e, f, g,h, and as both complete 
the serial circles or entireties, so do the cervical-vertebral 
proportionals, 4, 5, 6, 7, refer to the laryngeal pieces a, 8, c, 
and speak of the law of metamorphosis which rendered 
them thus special from thoracic quantity. So in like 
manner do the lumbar vertebral proportionals 20, 21, 22, 
23, 24, refer to the fibrous ventral structures 20, 21, 22, 23, 
24, and describe the track of that hand of design which 
planned the special minus quantity from the plus original. 
The sacral proportionals from that marked 25, to the last 
caudal nodule, show that certain of those serial figures 
are still connected by fibrous bands (sacro-sciatic) with 
the pubic arches, 25, 26. 
Thus it would appear that the special design of serial 
human formation proves itself to be resulting by the modi- 
fication of an archetype series of whole quantities, such as 
those persisting at the thoracic region. And, therefore, if 
it shall at first sight seem rebellious to reason for any one 
to assert that laryngeal, ventral, and pubic specialties, such 
as we find them in the human skeleton, bear comparison 
not only with each other, but with the plus thoracic figures 
likewise, let it not be supposed that such an imterpretation 
has been crudely ventured,* without having first examined 
the skeleton forms of an animal kingdom, and in them 
discovered abundant proofs in support of the same. _ 
We do not say that skeleton quantities are all equal 
and uniform throughout an animal kingdom ; we do not 
speak of the unity under any such idea as this. We do 
not even state that the special form is uniform throughout 
that species to which it belongs, for we see that the human 
skeleton is not thus absolutely and unexceptionably pro- 
duced ; and we see, likewise, that it would be as impos- 
sible to prove the created homologous quantity between 
any one order of apparatus of skeleton form, as it would 
be to prove that skeleton entireties develope the lke 
quantities ; in short, as it would be to prove that two and 
two make five, or that a part was equal to the whole. On 
the contrary, the only reading that we here venture to 
give, is that a+b=c, and so we call c, the archetype; for 
as much as it appears self-evident that c, contains a, just 
as plus contains minus, and also that certain addition to 
the minus quantity would equate it with plus, just as 
subtraction from plus would equate it with minus. 
* In philosophia mens mancipatur rebus ; in poesi solvitur a nexu rerum et expatiatur et fingit que vult—nam sub philosophie nomine 
complectimur omnes artes et scientias, et guicquid denique a singularum rerum occursu per mentem im IRaGGS IM notiones collectum et digestum 
est.” —Bacon, Descriptio Globi Intellectualis, caput I, vol. v., p. exxyii. 
