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Title: The foundations of history
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Schieffelin, Samuel Bradhurst, 1811-1900. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, A. D. F. Randolph
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lmost entirely typical. Through typesand shadows, through things seen and temporal, we havebeen enabled to conceive things unseen and eternal.^ In creation the human appears to be the pattern form, orarchetype of animal existences. In the structure of all ani-mal forms, from fishes to man, there are striking resemblan-ces designed to assimilate the lower, as near as circumstan-ces would admit, to the higher. Thus, for instance, everysegment, and almost every bone, present in the human handand arm, exist also in the fin of the wliale, though they donot seem to be required for the support and movement ofthat undivided and inflexible paddle : and one can think ofno specific reason for such a peculiarity of structure, excepting * Those wishing to enter more fully into these subjects are referred to thework on Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation, by Dr. McCosh andDr. Dickie, and to The Typology of Scripture, by Dr. Fairbairn. Much ofthis chapter has been taken from those works.(224)
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TYPES IN CREATION. 225 the intention of having it brought into the nearest possibleconformity to the archetype. Most strikingly does the sim-ilarity of the human type, coupled with its relative superi-ority to the others, appear in regard to the brain, which isthe most peculiar and distinguishing part of the animalframe. Nature, says Hugh Miller, in his Footprints of theCreator, in constructing this curious organ in man, firstlays down a grooved cord, as the carpenter lays down thekeel of his vessel; and on this narrow base the perfect brain,as month after month passes by, is gradually built up, likethe vessel from the keel. First it grows up into a brainclosely resembling that of a fish ; a few additions more con-vert it into a brain undistinguishable from that of a reptile ;a few additions more impart to it the perfect appearance ofthe brain of a bird ; it then developes into a brain exceed-ingly like that of a mammiferous .quadruped ; and finally, ex-panding atop, and spreading out

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