Mivart's Lessons from Nature

Abstract

we are tempted to go at some length into the novel and striking arguments which Professor Mivart gives on these subjects. Whilst our space precludes us from a synoptical analysis of the work, we shall briefly consider parts of the eighth chapter. In this the author seeks to prove that the facts of mimicry and of the various kinds of homology, as exhibited in comparative anatomy* teratology, and pathology, reveal an internal force and dynamic agency, the soul in each animal, which forms one indissoluble unity