. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. SKELETON. 641 that, because it is plus quantity, no new appa- ratus ever appears, or can appear, at that locality which it occupies. Anatomical re- search has never yet discovered, and never can at any future time discover, a new and hitherto unknown osseous piece of any form or cast whatsoever at that spinal region where the thoracic apparatus stands fully created from the sternum in front to the spinal bone behind. Anatomical science may safely ven- ture to predict that the searcher after variety and specific differenc
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. SKELETON. 641 that, because it is plus quantity, no new appa- ratus ever appears, or can appear, at that locality which it occupies. Anatomical re- search has never yet discovered, and never can at any future time discover, a new and hitherto unknown osseous piece of any form or cast whatsoever at that spinal region where the thoracic apparatus stands fully created from the sternum in front to the spinal bone behind. Anatomical science may safely ven- ture to predict that the searcher after variety and specific differences will never find in any skeletal form, whether of extinct species, of existing species, or as yet uncreated species, a new osseous apparatus happening where the complete thoracic apparatus occurs. It can- not occur at this locality, because the full archetypal osseous quantity is already existing in thoracic structure. There is no regional spin;il variety, and no new or special apparatus, in the thoracic ophidian skeletal axis, be- cause the full or archetypal osseous quantity already exists in the thoracic form. The ophidian skeleton has neither cervix, loins, sacrum, clavicles, coracoid bones, ventral ap- paratus, pi;bic bones, or marsupial bones, be- cause the whole length of its spinal axis is already persistent in costo-vertebral thoracic character. If it be said that these various apparatus are not created for the ophidian skeleton, because they would not suit this particular cast of form, and that the " nihil supervncant'um" is a rule with nature in the construction of animal beings, I grant the truth of this most freely ; but still I will main- tain that this has no power to invalidate my present 'argument, which is conducted not to disprove design, but to demonstrate that all de>ign occurs by the omission of elemental structure proper to plus archetypal structure. I grant that the ophidian thoracic skeleton, though deprived of all the above-named specia
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