REMARKS ON THE FIGURES OF PLATE L. 
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FRAGMENTAL VARIETY LY COMBINES TO ESTABLISH THE INTELLIGIBLE FORM OF UNITY. 
DEBE ALTO: is always attendant upon the dismemberment of parts which are proper to a whole 
quantity ; and as the parts of a whole may be infinitely subdivided, go will variety be infinitely multiplied 
in the same ratio. Comparison, therefore, may have its choice of two different modes of study, viz., the 
infmite and the finite ; the former being the pursuit of special variation, the latter being the reconstruction 
or adaptation of all various parts for the purpose of fashioning forth the whole quantity or unity. 
Unity or the whole is fmite, and therefore the reason worships it as being a thing encompassable by the 
understanding. Species or variety is infinite, and therefore the reason renounces the pursuit of it as being 
a condition of form immeasurable and boundless as time, space, or number. 
The subdivision of any given integer into its parts is the creation of species, and as subdivision 
may be infinite, and hence yield the infinity of species, it is all-sufficient to know this fact, and set it 
aside as an idea which can never be rendered more perfect than it is at present, for we can never outpace . 
the possibility of special operation or the creation of plurality, even if we held a lease of time and counted 
facts by the myriad every moment. 
The part expresses its relationship with the whole, otherwise the part has no meaning considered as 
a thing per se. A caudal ossicle, an epiphysis or a phalangeal bone describes itself as being a thing 
produced as part of a whole skeleton quantity; or, if either of such parts be unaccompanied by this 
interpretation, it is altogether unintelligible. Unity or the whole quantity suffers a division into its integral 
parts ; such parts are the species of unity or the whole quantity, and if the species do not interpret 
themselves as. being the parts of unity, then they express nothing truthful or interesting considered severally 
and isolatedly. very fragment or species of the human skeleton form is a thing relationary to this form. 
And every fragment, part, or species of osseous quantity developed amongst the four animal classes is 
related to and expressive of some whole quantity, unity, or integer, whose dismemberment has been 
their creation. 
It matters not as an objection to the present argument, 
whether adult skeleton quantity be rendered minus by 
We know well that fig. K is now in 
How do we know this? We know it 
the human species. 
minus condition. 
accidental subtraction, or whether it takes place by natural 
design, and through a natural law of formation, for still 
the ideal restoration of lost parts:is, in either case, a 
mental operation, assisted by the rule of analogy. 
Our knowledge of the normal quantity proper to any 
adult skeleton figure, teaches us of the quantity of which 
accident may have rendered it minus, and it is by the 
homology of skeleton creation, and by the comparative 
reasoning, that we ascertain clearly how much is plus or 
minus to any skeleton species. : 
For example, fig. K is a fossilized human skeleton, 
minus in quantity to that which we know to be proper to 
by the rule of analogy, by the homology of form, by the 
- unity of organisation, by the previous knowledge of the 
quantity proper to a normal skeleton, and by comparative 
reasoning. Hence, when we compare fig. K to the com- 
plete plus human skeleton, we then can unerringly 
ascertain how much is wanting to the thorax, spine, pelvis, - 
and limbs of fig. K. 
Now, already understanding that fig. K, such as it 
presents to us, could never have been a fitness as to human 
form, we then do not turn to compare it with fig. L, which 
is also a minus quantity compared with the human plus 
figure. We do not compare minus with minus in order to 
