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"The Plurality of Worlds" p. 82 Considers language the great (but not sole) difference between Man & Beast

p 102. "Geology which fills the regions of duration with events, as astronomy fills the regions of the universe with objects."—

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On my theory an "Exemplar" is no more wanted than to account for likeness of members of one Family.— 11

This notion of exemplar or archetype & seems satisfactory to minds of high order, but to me it seems only a Reverential way of saying things are as they are.

"Plurality of worlds "p. 212. The greatest anatomists admit that researches on the structure of animals must be guided by the principle of "Unity of composition, as well as the principle of Final causes". How exactly this agrees

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with descent & selection for first cause of advantageous structures.—

p. 213 "Our naturalists, it wd seem, cannot point out any definite end, which is answered by making so many classes of animals on this one Vertebrate plan" We do not say that making beast & fishes &c on the vertebrate plan proves design in the Creator; the plan is not itself design, it is something in addition to design

p 249. The mode in which Plato

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expressed the doctrine which we are here urging (viz that there was from the beginning creative thoughts) was, that there were in the Divine Mind, before or during the work of creation, certain archetypal Ideas, certain exemplars or patterns of the world & its parts, according to which the work was performed."

p. 250 "Now, however," Mr. Owen continues "the recognition of an ideal exemplar for the vertebrated animals proves that the knowledge of such a being as man must have existed before man appeared. For the Divine mind which planned

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the Archetype also foreknew all its modifications. The Archetypal idea was manifested in the flesh under diverse modifications upon this planet, long prior to the existence of those animal species which actually exemplify it."— What can this last sentence of Owen's (out of Nature of Limbs) refer to?—