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pronouncing it, in the light of the success it brings, 

 to be good, or cursing it effectively by sinking with 

 it into extinction. For there are variations that 

 kill, being pathological the germinal artist is not 

 always quite sane as well as variations that enrich 

 and make for progress. 



Four saving-clauses may be permitted. We must 

 not think of the microcosmic individuality of the 

 germ-cell in any wooden or one-sided way. We 

 cannot conceive how it has unified in its pin's-head 

 scope the long results of time, the treasures of the 

 ages ; but so it is. We do not understand how it is 

 not merely protoplasm, but a daimon as well; but 

 so it is. Secondly, we must not exaggerate the 

 difficulty of understanding how the microcosmic 

 individuality can make experiments materially 

 regarded, permutations and combinations of mole- 

 cules which have relevancy in relation to the outer 

 world in which the macrocosmic individual will live 

 and work. It is metaphorically like this, that within 

 the germ-cell there is an achitecture ideally re- 

 garded, an idea which represents the hereditary 

 organization and has stood the test of time. Now, 

 the changes that can be profitably made in this 

 architecture must be more or less congruent with 

 the already established style, just as an experiment 

 in our thinking, if it is to be successful and to 

 survive, must be consonant with already established 

 truth. Therefore the germ-cell's initiatives, though 

 sometimes fools' experiments, partake but little of 

 the fortuitous. 



