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tine movements and bores its way into the female cell. 

 The nuclei of both sexual cells attracted by a certain 

 affinity approach each other and melt into one." 

 (Haeckel, Ev. Man, p. 53.) 



How do they acquire this "affinity?' How do 

 they know each other? Have they intellect, memory 

 and will? Are they not driven toward each other by 

 a supernatural, psychic force? 



Continuing he says: 



"The fertilized cell is quite another thing from 

 the unfertilized cell. For if we must regard the 

 spermia [spermatozoa] as real cells, no less than the 

 ova, and the process of conception as the coalescence 

 of the two we must consider the resultant cell as a 

 quite new and independent organism. It bears in the 

 cell and nuclear matter of the penetrating spermato- 

 zoon a part of the father's body, and in the protoplasm 

 of the ovum a part of the mother's body. This is 

 clear from the fact that the child inherits many 

 features from both parents. It inherits from the 

 father by means of the spermatozoon and from the 

 mother by means of the ovum. The actual blending 

 of the two cells produces a third cell, which is the 

 germ of the child, or new organism conceived. One 

 may also say of this sexual coalescence that the stem 

 cell is a simple hermaphrodite, it unites both sexual 

 substances in itself.' (Ev. Man, pp. 53-54.) 



"The individual development," he says, "in man 

 and the other animals, commences with the formation 

 of a simple "stem-cell,' of this character, and this 

 then passes by repeated segmentation (or cleavage) 

 into a cluster of cells, known as 'the segmentation 



