I Long Ago Suggested The Hypothesis, That

Man, Whose Organization Is Regarded As The Highest, Departs From The Vertebrate Archetype; And It Is Because The Study Of Anatomy Is Usually Commenced From, And Often Confined To, His Structure, That A Knowledge Of The Archetype Has Been So Long Hidden From Anatomists.

'time's Noblest Offspring Is The Last.' This Line Of Bishop Berkeley's Expresses The Real Cause Of The Belief In Progress In The Animal Creation.

Never Was There A Dogma More Calculated To Foster Indolence, And To Blunt The Keen Edge Of Curiosity, Than The Assumption Of The Discordance Between The Former And The Existing Causes Of Change.

It Was A Profound Saying Of Wilhelm Humboldt, That 'man Is Man Only By Means Of Speech, But In Order To Invent Speech He Must Be Already Man.'

The Earth's Becoming At A Particular Period The Residence Of Human Beings, Was An Era In The Moral, Not In The Physical World, That Our Study And Contemplation Of The Earth, And The Laws Which Govern Its Animate Productions, Ought No More To Be Considered In The Light Of A Disturbance Or Deviation From The System, Than The Discovery Of The Satellites Of Jupiter Should Be Regarded As A Physical Event In The History Of Those Heavenly Bodies, However Influential They May Have Become From That Time In Advancing The Progress Of Sound Philosophy Among Men.