Chapter Evidence to Excelsior of E by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

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   Part iii. From the Sack-worm to Man.
   (1) The larvæ of Ascidians.
   (2) Lowly-organised fish, like the Lancelet.
   (3) The Lepidosiren, and other fish.
   (4) The Amphibians.
   (5) Birds and Reptiles.
   (6) Monotremata, which connect reptiles with mammals.
   (7) Morsupials.
   (8) Placental Mammals,
   (9) The Lemuridæ.
   (10) The Simiadæ.
   (11) The Monkey tribe, consisting of the New World monkey (called Platyrhines), and the Old World monkeys (called Catarhines, 3 syl.).
   (12) The Missing Link between the catarhine monkey and man. The Alali is thought by some to supply this link. It is one of the monkey tribe which approaches nearer to the human species than any other yet discovered.
    This is no place to criticise the theory of evolution, but merely to state it as briefly and plainly as possible.

Ewe-lamb (A). A single possession greatly prized. (2 Sam. xii. 1-14.)

Ex Cathedra (Latin). With authority. The Pope, speaking ex cathedra, is said to speak with an infallible voice - to speak as the successor and representative of St. Peter, and in his pontifical character. The words are Latin, and mean "from the chair" - i.e. the throne of the pontiff. The phrase is applied to all dicta uttered by authority, and ironically to self-sufficient, dogmatical assertions.

Ex Hypothesi according to what is supposed or assumed.

"The justification of the charge [i.e. the tax for betterment] lies ex hypothesi in an enhanced value of the property in the Betterment area." - The Property Protection objection against section 37 of the Betterment clause of the Tower Bridge Southern Approach Bill (1894).

Ex Luce Lucellum To make a gain out of light; to make a cheese-paring from lucifer-matches. When Robert Lowe proposed to tax lucifer-matches, he suggested that the boxes should be labelled Ex luce lucellum. (Parliamentary Reports, 1871.)

"Lucifer aggrediens ex luce haurire lucellum
Incidit in tenebras; lex nova fumus erat."

Ex Officio (Latin, by virtue of his office). As, the Lord Mayor for the time being shall be ex officio one of the trustees.

Ex Parte (Latin, proceeding only from one of the parties). An ex-parte statement is a one-sided statement, a partial statement, a statement made by one of the litigants without being modified by the counter- statement.

Ex Ped'e Herculem From this sample you can judge of the whole. Plutarch says that Pythagoras ingeniously calculated the height of Hercules by comparing the length of various stadia in Greece. A stadium was 600 feet in length, but Hercules' stadium at Olympia was much longer. Now, says the philosopher, as the stadium of Olympia is longer than an ordinary stadium, so the foot of Hercules was longer than an ordinary foot; and as the foot bears a certain ratio to the height, so the height of Hercules can be easily ascertained. (Varia Scripta.)

Ex Post Facto (Latin). An ex post facto law. A law made to meet and punish a crime after the offence has been committed.

Ex Professo (Latin). Avowedly; expressly.

"I have never written ex professo on the subject." - Gladstone: Nineteenth Century, Nov., 1885.

Ex Uno Omnes means from the one instance deduced you may infer the nature of the rest. A general inference from a particular example. If one oak-tree bears acorns, all other oak-trees will grow similar fruit.

Exaltation In old astrology, a planet was said to be in its "exaltation" when it was in that sign of the zodiac in which it was supposed to exercise its strongest influence. Thus the exaltation of Venus is in Pisces, and her "dejection" in Virgo.

"And thus, God wot, Merc'ry is desolate
In Pisces, wher Venus is exaltate."
Chaucer; Canterbury Tales, 6,285.

   In chemistry, the refining or subtilising of bodies, or of their qualities, virtues, or strength.