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D. INHERITANCE. SECOND PROOF OF THE AUTONOMY 



OF LIFE- 

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The Material Continuity in Inheritance .... 214 



On Certain Theories which Seek to Compare Inheritance to Memory 216 



The Complex-Equipotential System and its Role in Inheritance . 219 

 The Second Proof of Life-Autonomy. Entelechy at the Bottom 



of Inheritance ....... 224 



The Significance of the Material Continuity in Inheritance . 227 



The Experimental Facts about Inheritance . . . 228 



The Role of the Nucleus in Inheritance .... 233 



Variation and Mutation ...... 237 



CONCLUSIONS FROM THE FIRST MAIN PART OF THESE LECTURES 240 



PART II. SYSTEMATICS AND HISTORY 



A. THE PRINCIPLES OF SYSTEMATICS 



Rational Systematics ...... 243 



Biological Systematics ...... 246 



B. THE THEORY OF DESCENT- 



1. GENERALITIES ....... 250 



The Covert Presumption of all Theories of Descent . 253 

 The Small Value of Pure Phytogeny . . .255 



History and Systematics ..... 257 



2. THE PRINCIPLES OF DARWINISM .... 260 



Natural Selection . . . . . .261 



Fluctuating Variation the Alleged Cause of Organic Diversity 264 



Darwinism Fails all along the Line .... 269 



3. THE PRINCIPLES OF LAMARCKISM .... 271 



Adaptation as the Stai ting- Point .... 272 

 The Active Storing of Contingent Variations as a 



Hypothetic Principle ..... 273 

 Criticism of the "Inheritance of Acquired Characters" 



assumed by Lamarckism ..... 275 

 Other Principles Wanted . . . . .281 

 Criticism of the Hypothesis of Storing and Handing Down 



Contingent Variations ..... 282 



4. THE REAL RESULTS AND THE UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF 



TRANSFORMISM ...... 290 



5. THE LOGICAL VALUE OF THE ORGANIC FORM ACCORDING 



TO THE DIFFERENT TRANSFORMISTIC THEORIES . 29-3 



The Organic Form and Entelechy .... 294 



