Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1854) Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal edinburghnewphil571854 Year: 1854 Organized Beings in Time. 333 The ordinary illustration of the relation of Polarity, in a natural history sense, is that representing the rela- tion of opposition or progression in oppo- site directions of the Animal and Vege- table series ; the meeting point of both being at the points of lowest development of each (a, v, in the accompanying diagram), where the animal and vegetable natures are almost confounded, whilst the strongest manifestations of each are at A and V, the highe
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1854) Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal edinburghnewphil571854 Year: 1854 Organized Beings in Time. 333 The ordinary illustration of the relation of Polarity, in a natural history sense, is that representing the rela- tion of opposition or progression in oppo- site directions of the Animal and Vege- table series ; the meeting point of both being at the points of lowest development of each (a, v, in the accompanying diagram), where the animal and vegetable natures are almost confounded, whilst the strongest manifestations of each are at A and V, the highest animals being farthest removed from the highest vegetables,—in other words, at opposite poles of the sphere of organized beings. The earnest desire implanted instinctively in every inquiring mind, to discover a law or scheme in arrangements of Nature, has given origin to many speculations concerning the distribution of life in geological time, all of them founded on facts more or less clearly understood. Hence have arisen the hypothesis of an evolution of all organized types, during the course of time, from one rudimentary prototype ; that of the succession of distinctly originating forms of animals and vegetables in order of the progression within their re- spective series ; of the coeval starting of the great groups wholly or mostly at the beginning, but in each instance by the lower forms of the type ; of the representation by the faunas and floras of geo- logical epochs ; of the successive zones of life belting the geographical regions between the poles and the equator ; of a uniformity of life arrangements throughout time and repetition through substitution of equal and similar groups ; and of manifestations in the distribu- tion of life in time of analogies that are essentially theological. For several years I have been persuaded that the simple and un- questionable phenomena of substitution of groups by representative groups, manifested in the arrangements of the fa
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