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LS 
REMARKS ON THE FIGURES OF PLATE MEV 
THE PLUS THORACIC ARCHETYPE AS UNITY EXPLAINS THE PRESENT CONDITION OF ALL THE MINUS 
QUANTITIES HOLDING SERIAL ORDER WITH ITSELF. 
RDER is the serial arrangement of similar and relationary entities. When those entities are in plus 
condition the order is absolute and uninterrupted, as thus, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9,9, 9, 9,9. When, on the 
other hand, those plus entities are subjected to a serial degradation, or metamorphosis of parts of 
their several quantities, then they take on the order of converging series, as thus, 9, 8, 7, 6,5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 
The series of the integer 9, is therefore an absolute plus order, whereas the proportional series of the 
several quantities contained in 9, constitute a converging order. In addition to this, we femark that 
the disintegration of the proportionals contained in 9, will, when those proportionals are arranged in 
serial order, represent a converging series equal to that which occurs by the serial degradation of 
nine integers, such as nine following each other. Thus, as the proportionals of the one integer, or 9, 
may be drawn thus, 9, 8, Y, 6, 5, 4, 3,2, 1, so will the series of 9, drawn nine times, as thus, 9, 9, 9, 9, 
9,9, 9, 9, 9, yield, by a metamorphosis of various quantities of each, the proportional series of 
9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4,3,2,1; and therefore it is that we here understand each quantity of this latter. series 
to be a proportional of the integer 9. 
Order, therefore, may characterise series, whether the units be all as plus integers, or as the 
proportionals of such integers. Now, the same plus series of the integer 9, which can, under a 
serial metamorphosing act, yield a proportional, or converging series, as thus, 9, 8,7, 6, 5, 4,3, 2,1; 
may also yield an unequal, or (so to speak) an eccentric series, by the subtraction of variable 
quantities from various regions of the plus series of 9, as thus, 9,5, 5,5,9,9,9,5,5. But, if this 
latter series be eccentric as to the mequality of quantities in the same order, it still may be pregnant 
of fitness and design; and it is so, in fact; for applying it to illustrate the creation of the human 
skeleton series, we shall find both to correspond, as well in the eccentricity of serial arrangement as 
in the fitness for design. The human skeleton series is alternately produced in plus and minus serial 
quantities. The cranio-facial apparatus is plus, the cervix is minus, the thorax is plus, and the loins is 
MINUS ; and. just as the series of 9, may be varied as to quantity, so is the series of a thoracic archetype 
varied as to quantity. 
Fig. A, the skeleton of a New Zealander, compared with 
fig. B, the skeleton of a Negro, proves a morphological 
identity between both forms. The same number and 
relative position of elementary parts are visible in the two . 
figures. So, also, are the like parts found in the skeleton 
quantity of a baboon, a mandril, an orang, or a chim- 
panzee. But whenever we discover a plus variety to 
happen between forms of the bimanous species, or those 
of the quadrumanous character, that plus variety is created 
upon the transition units standing between two regions of 
series. 
The plus cervical or lumbar costa may render fig. A 
various to itself. So may the like formation vary the fig. 
B from itself. The same may occur for any of the quad- 
rumanous species, and thus we find that plus and minus 
proportioning varies individuals of one species. Why may 
