FOOTNOTES.
Reading edition
1 = 1
1+2 = 3
1+2+3 = 6
l+2+3+4 = 10, &c.
They are called triangular numbers, because a number of points corresponding to any term can always be placed in the form of a triangle; for instance—
. . .. . .. ... . .. ... ....
1 3 6 10
Table shows: scale of animal kingdom (the numbers indicate orders); order of animals in; ascending series of rocks; fœtal human brain resembles, in
(The numbers indicate orders)
Rocks: 1. Gneiss and Mica Slate system
Fœtal: 1st month, that of an avertebrated animal;
Scale: Radiata (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Order: Zoophyta, Polypiaria
Rocks: 2. Clay Slate and Grawacke system
Fœtal: 1st month, that of an avertebrated animal;
Scale: Mollusca (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
Order: Conchifera, Double-shelled Mollusks
Rocks: 3. Silurian system
Fœtal: 1st month, that of an avertebrated animal;
Scale: Articulata Annelida (12, 13, 14)
Rocks: 3. Silurian system
Fœtal: 1st month, that of an avertebrated animal;
Scale: Articulata Crustacea (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
Order: Crustacea, Annelida, Crustaceous Fishes
Rocks: 3. Silurian system
Fœtal: 1st month, that of an avertebrated animal;
Scale: Articulata Arachnida & Insecta (21–31)
Order: Crustaceous Fishes
Rocks: 4. Old Red Sandstone
Fœtal: 1st month, that of an avertebrated animal;
Scale: Vertebrata Pisces (32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
Order: True Fishes
Rocks: 5. Carboniferous formation
Fœtal: 2nd month, that of a fish;
Scale: Vertebrata Reptilia (37, 38, 39, 40)
Order: Piscine Saurians (ichthyosaurus, &c.), Pterodactyles, Crocodiles, Tortoises, Batrachians
Rocks: 6. New Red Sandstone
Fœtal: 3rd month, that of a turtle;
Scale: Vertebrata Aves (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
Order: Birds
Rocks: 6. New Red Sandstone
Fœtal: 4th month, that of a bird;
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 47 Cetacea
Order: (Bone of a marsupial animal)
Rocks: 7. Oolite
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 48 Ruminantia
Order: (Bone of a marsupial animal)
Rocks: 8. Cretaceous formation
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 49 Pachydermata
Order: Pachydermata (tapirs, horses, &c.)
Rocks: 9. Lower Eocene
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 50 Edentata
Order: Pachydermata (tapirs, horses, &c.)
Rocks: 9. Lower Eocene
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 51 Rodentia
Order: Rodentia (dormouse, squirrel, &c.)
Rocks: 9. Lower Eocene
Fœtal: 5th month, that of a rodent;
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 52 Marsupialia
Order: Marsupialia (racoon, opossum, &c.)
Rocks: 9. Lower Eocene
Fœtal: 6th month, that of a ruminant;
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 53 Amphibia
Order: Marsupialia (racoon, opossum, &c.)
Rocks: 9. Lower Eocene
Fœtal: 6th month, that of a ruminant;
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 54 Digitigrada
Order: Digitigrada (genette, fox, wolf, &c.)
Rocks: 10. Miocene
Fœtal: 7th month, that of a digitigrade animal;
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 55 Plantigrada
Order: Plantigrada (bear)
Rocks: 10. Miocene
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 55 Plantigrada
Order: Cetacea (lamantins, seals, whales)
Rocks: 10. Miocene
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 56 Insectivora
Order: Edentata (sloths, &c.)
Rocks: 11. Pliocene
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 56 Insectivora
Order: Ruminantia (oxen, deer, &c.)
Rocks: 11. Pliocene
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 57 Cheiroptera
Rocks: 11. Pliocene
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 58 Quadrumana
Order: Quadrumana (monkeys)
Rocks: 11. Pliocene
Fœtal: 8th month, that of the quadrumana;
Scale: Vertebrata Mammalia: 59 Bimana
Order: Bimana (man)
Rocks: 12. Superficial deposits
Fœtal: 9th month, attains full human character;
“Can we look farther back one way into the first origin of matter than we can look forward the other way into the last developments of mind? Can we say that God has not in matter itself laid the seeds of every faculty of mind, rather than that he has made the first principle of mind entirely distinct from that of matter? Cannot the first cause of all we see and know have fraught matter itself, from its very beginning, with all the attributes necessary to develop into mind, as well as he can have from the first made the attributes of mind wholly different from those of matter, only in order afterwards, by an imperceptible and incomprehensible link, to join the two together?
“ * * [The decombination of the matter on which mind rests] is this a reason why mind must be annihilated? Is the temporary reverting of the mind, and of the sense out of which that mind developes, to their original component elements, a reason for thinking that they cannot again at another later period, and in another higher globe, be again recombined, and with more splendour than before? * * The New Testament does not after death here promise us a soul hereafter unconnected with matter, and which has no connexion with our present mind—a soul independent of time and space. That is a fanciful idea, not founded on its expressions, when taken in their just and real meaning. On the contrary, it promises us a mind like the present, founded on time and space; since it is, like the present, to hold a certain situation in time, and a certain locality in space. But it promises a mind situated in portions of time and of space different from the present; a mind composed of elements of matter more extended, more perfect, and more glorious: a mind which, formed of materials supplied by different globes, is consequently able to see farther into the past, and to think farther into the future, than any mind here existing: a mind which, freed from the partial and uneven combination incidental to it on this globe, will be exempt from the changes for evil to which, on the present globe, mind as well as matter is liable, and will only thenceforth experience the changes for the better which matter, more justly poised, will alone continue to experience: a mind which, no longer fearing the death, the total decomposition, to which it is subject on this globe, will thenceforth continue last and immortal.”—Hope, on the Origin and Prospects of Man, 1831.