Mammals
Table of Contents
FIRST ORDER: EXUNGULATE MAMMALS
Only two limbs; they are in front, short, flattened, appropriate for swimming, and display neither nails nor hoofs.
Cetaceans
Right-whale Rorqual Physale Cachalot Sperm-whale
Narwhal Anarnak Delphinopterus Dolphin Hyperodon
SECOND ORDER: AMPHIBIAN MAMMALS
Four limbs; two short ones in front, as fins with unguiculate digits; the back two are directed towards the back or united with the extremity of the body, which is tail-like (as in fish)
Seal Walrus
Dugong Manatee
Observation
This order is placed here only because of the relationship of the general form of the anmals which make it up. See my observations on p. 143.
THIRD ORDER: UNGULATE MAMMALS
Four limbs which are suitable only for moving; their digits are enclosed entirely at the ends by a horn which is called a hoof.
Solipeds
Horse
Ruminants or Bisulcates
Ox Antelope Goat Sheep
Deer Giraffe Camel Musk-deer
Pachiderms
Rhinoceros Hyrax Tapir
Pig Elephant Hippopotamus
FOURTH ORDER: UNGUICULATE MAMMALS
Four limbs; flat or pointed nails at the end of their digits, which are not enclosed.
Tardigrades
Sloth
Edentates
Ant-eater Pangolin
Aardvark Armadillo
Rodents
Kangaroo Hare Coendu Porcupine Lemur Phascolomys Hydromys Beaver Cavy
Spalax Squirrel Dormouse Hamster Marmot Vole Musk-rat Rat
Pedimana
Opossum Bandicoot Dasyurus
Wombat Coescoes Phalanger
Plantigrades
Mole Shrew Bear Kinkajou
Badger Coati Hedgehog Tenrec
Digitgrades
Otter Mongoose Skunk Weasel
Cat Civet Hyaena Dog
Chiroptera
Galeopithecus Rhinolophus Phyllostome
Noctilio Bat Flying-fox
Quadrumanes
Galago Tarsius Loris Makia Indris Guenon
Baboon Sapajou Cebus African-Baboon Pongo Orang
The family of quadrumanes is made up of the most perfect animals, above the last genera of this family.
The genus Orang (pithecus) ends the entire order, just as the monad began it.
What a difference in their organic structure and faculties!