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in substance, more than an inappreciable fraction of 

 the constituents of the germ ; and that it is almost 

 wholly made up of assimilated and metamorphosed nu- 

 triment. In the great majority of cases, at any rate, 

 the full grown organism becomes what it is by the ab- 

 sorption of not-living matter, and its conversion into 

 living matter of a specific type. (Encyc. Brit. (9 ed.) 

 8, p. 746.) 



The substance of these quotations is that the germ 

 (fertilized ovum) has, "within itself, a tendency to 

 assume the form of a man or woman. But, as above 

 remarked, this is not true. On the contrary the 

 "germ' divides into two daughter-cells, and these 

 continue to divide until millions of them are produced. 

 These daughter-cells are so distributed, combined, dif- 

 ferentiated, grouped and arranged as to produce the 

 embryo body with all its organs and parts. Accord- 

 ing to Huxley and other materialists the "germ" and 

 its daughter-cells do all this work spontaneously with- 

 out the aid or guidance of any extraneous psychic or 

 creative force. Is this possible? 



