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the knowledge of such a being as Man must have 
existed before Man appeared. For the Divine 
mind which planned the Archetype also foreknew 
all its modifications. 
‘ The Archetypal idea was manifested in the 
flesh, under divers such modifications, upon this 
planet, long prior to the existence of those animal 
species that actually exemplify it. 
‘To what natural laws or secondary causes 
the orderly succession and progression of such 
organic phenomena may have been committed we 
are yet ignorant. But if, without derogation of 
the Divine power, we may conceive the existence 
of such ministers, and personify them by the term 
“ Nature,” we learn from the past history of our 
globe that she has advanced with slow and 
stately steps, guided by the archetypal light, 
amidst the wreck of worlds, from the first embodi- 
ment of the Vertebrate idea under its old Ichthyic 
vestment, until it became arrayed in the glorious 
garb of the Human form.’ ^ 
Those who know Owen’s mind only on the 
side reflected in the exact observations, the 
clear-headed and sagacious interpretations, of the 
anatomical and palaeontological memoirs, should 
jDonder over these and other passages of like 
tenor, if they wish to form a just judgment about 
the position which he took up in morphology ; and, 
later, in regard to the Darwinian revivification 
^ On the Nahcre of Limbs, pp. 85, 86. 1849. 
