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germ-cell (fertilized ovum), which is composed of car- 

 bon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, with a possible 

 trace of phosphorus and sulphur. Whatever qualities, 

 characteristics, traits and potentialities pass from the 

 parents to the child must necessarily be transmitted 

 by and through the germ-cell (or fertilized ovum), 

 for nothing else passes from the parents to the child. 

 This cell is about the size of one-sixth of a common 

 pin's head; and is barely visible to the naked eye 

 under the most favorable conditions. It has no intel- 

 lect, memory nor will-power; no knowledge of anat- 

 omy, nor of the human body. 



It is immediately divided into two daughter-cells, 

 these into four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two and so on 

 to infinity. Thus, it appears that the infinitesimal 

 fertilized ovum is soon disintegrated, divided into 

 millions of pieces and distributed among the new cells 

 which are made from the food of the mother. 



It is impossible to believe that the minute fertil- 

 ized ovum when divided into a million pieces, selects 

 the atoms, generates, guides and controls the forces 

 and motions which build up the two hundred and sev- 

 enty-eight bones in the infant body. It is preposter- 

 ous to suppose that the millionth part of the germ-cell 

 can determine the point in the embryo body, in which 

 the skull bones, the ear bones, the spinal column, the 

 arm-buds, leg-buds, etc., shall appear. Nor can we 

 believe that this little cell or any of its daughter-cells 

 can spontaneously and automatically produce any of 

 the vital phenomena, manifested by the human skel- 

 eton. 



Every one knows that neither the father nor the 



