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rangements, which build up a body, are new, unique 

 and peculiar to that body. 



The theory of heredity is based on these facts: 

 The father contributes the spermatozoon and the 

 mother the ovum, which form the germ-cell; this cell 

 and its daughter-cells develop and grow to be a man or 

 a woman, who has substantially the same form, size, 

 structure, organs and parts that one of its parents 

 has, and generally has some of their qualities, char- 

 acteristics and traits. 



But these facts do not prove that the child inher- 

 its anything from either parent; they do not prove 

 that the parents, or either of them, caused the child 

 to develop, grow and resemble them in any of these 

 particulars. The existence of a fact and tho cause of 

 that fact are two different things. Thus, every body 

 knows that a stone falls to the ground; but nobody 

 knows why. The child resembles its father but why ? 

 Do the parents cause this resemblance? Can they, 

 or either of them, cause their child to have blua eyes 

 or black ; a long or short nose ; a large or small foot ? 



Neither Darwin, nor any other man has ever 

 shown how it is possible for the bodies of the parents, 

 or any part of either of them, to affect, modify or de- 

 termine the form, features, size, structure, qualities, 

 characteristics or traits of their children. It is ad- 

 mitted on all sides that the parents have no voluntary 

 control over these things. Darwin, (Origin of Species, 

 1, p. 15), says: ''The laws governing inheritance are 

 for the most part unknown/ Haeckel is voluminous 

 in describing the phenomena of reproduction, hered- 



