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four daughter cells, and so on into the millions; and 

 this segmentation of the stem-cell and daughter cells 

 would surely annihilate any skeleton, model or other 

 outline that might exist in the germ-cell; (3) the 

 germ-cell first divides into two daughter-cells and so 

 on, to infinity, as already stated ; and these daughter- 

 cells form what are called "germ-layers" or sheets of 

 cells from which the human body and all of its 

 organs and parts are built up. (Haeckel, Ev. Man, 

 pp. 14, 16, 59, 92; Encyc. Brit., (9th ed.) 3, p. 682; 

 8, pp. 165, 744; 24, p. 631; Cent. Die. 3, p. 2500, 

 "Germ-layer.") 



This mode of growth, by the segmentation of cells 

 and formation of germ-layers, is called "epigenesis' 

 which Huxley defines as "the successive differentia- 

 tion of a relatively homogeneous rudiment, into the 

 parts and structures, which characterize the adult.' 

 (Encyc. Brit. 8, p. 744. Cent. Die. 3, p. 1968, "Epi- 

 genesis.") 



According to the theory of epigenesis, which is 

 now held by all the scientific world, the human body 

 grows anew from the germ-cell, without any skeleton 

 model or any other kind of preformation. 



"Every living thing," says Huxley, "is evolved 

 from a particle of matter, in which no trace of the 

 distinctive characters of the adult form of that living 

 thing is discernible. This particle is termed a germ.' 

 (Encyc. Brit. (9 ed.) 8, p. 746.) 



He defines a germ as "matter potentially alive, 

 and having, within itself, the tendency to assume a 

 definite living form;' and says that this definition 



