Anthropo-biology : towards a system of the sciences

of man, was Man. The animals, and even vegetables too, were out on the branches of the tree and on the twigs at the ends of the branches.

In this view man is not merely another animal, but in the development of man through the long ages and aeons of geology, as he developed internally his different organs and functions, there were cast out, as it were, the corresponding functions and organisms in the form of the different animals of the biological tree. Right from the beginning, in such a view as Jaworski’s, the aboriginal thread was Man, and the kingdoms of nature were gradually separated out from Man, and, as it were, left behind. As they were left behind there were developed within man the corresponding organs and later the faculties which constitute human abilities and emotions.

An example would help to make this less abstract and formal. There are many that one could take and perhaps a simple one would be most helpful. There are in all the seas and pools of the world little elementary animals called hydras which in their more complex forms constitute the coral beds of the world. Essentially these creatures are little tiny tubes which branch and link together again to form networks of tubes, little ones joining together to make bigger ones, and bigger ones splitting up into little ones. Through them all by constant pulsing of these tubes there circulates the fluid of the oceans or water in which they live. These hydras in their various forms and complexities represent to Jaworski and to those who think like him what he calls an ‘exteriorisation’, an outward manifestation of that which in Man and in the higher animals also appears as the blood vessels, lymph vessels and capillaries. But his illustration should not be left just at that because he goes on to point out how these hydras produce

enital organs in the form of medusae. These medusae are like little bells, with a hammer in the middle, divided often into four cavities by septa; round the periphery of the bells are little vessels carrying fluid in a circulation and these medusae swim in the sea by squeezing themselves, projecting the water backwards and themselves moving forwards. Jaworski suggests that just as in Man the blood vessels give rise to the pulsing heart as their

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