70 ANIMAL INDIVIDUALITY [OH. 



will make a gallant attempt to develop into a 

 normal whole ; and, though it does not succeed, 

 its death seems due to mere minuteness, lack of 

 size, rather than to lack of that internal machinery 

 which produces the complex adult from the simple 



egg. 



These facts are a reductio ad absnrdum of the 

 theory. It is difficult to consider the two or more 

 experimentally produced sea-urchins or newts as 

 constituting a single individual ; the four armadilloes 

 with their one individuality raise more than a doubt ; 

 and with the occasional and accidental production of 

 true twins in man comes finality. If anything is an 

 individual on this earth, that surely is man ; and yet 

 we are asked to believe that though the most of us 

 are true individuals, yet here and there some man 

 who lives and moves and has his being like the rest 

 is none, that he must make shift to share an in- 

 dividuality with another man simply because the 

 couple happen to be descended from one fertilized 

 egg instead of two. In himself a twin is like any 

 other man ; to say that one is an individual while the 

 other is not, takes all meaning from the word. 



The idea rests partly on a misapprehension of the 

 sexual process, partly on realities which are of some 

 zoological importance but have no true bearing on 

 the idea of individuality. 



Until very recent times the sexual process, the 



