STAR-FISHES. 
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the construction of a Sea-urchin than in the building up 
of a world !”* 
Time and space would not permit us to dwell on all the 
marvels of creative power displayed in these animals ; in 
the elaborate system of muscular bands and loops and cap- 
sules ; the singularly complex array of arched teeth con- 
stituting what is called “ Aristotle’s lantern the appa- 
ratus of watcr-ducts that resemble the mains and pipes of 
our great metropolis ; the forest of chased and fluffed and 
sculptured spines that bristle and nod upon the surface ! 
But there are some points of further interest which we 
must not pass over, though we will defer their considera- 
tion to a future chapter. 
Op. eit., 152. 
