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individual are better than those of his parents ; and 

 that he transmits to his child all the improvements 

 made on his eyes during his life and so on to the latest 

 generation. In other words, according to Darwin, the 

 eyes of today are the " accumulated improvements >! 

 of millions of years. 



Apparently Darwin thinks that each individual 

 gets the benefit of all improvements made in the eyes of 

 every other individual of all other species without 

 regard to genetic relations, for he says, "on millions 

 of individuals of many kinds," etc. According to this 

 view, a man would avail himself of any improvement 

 that might be made in the eye of a fly, which is pre- 

 posterous. 



There would be some force in Darwin's argu- 

 ment if it were possible to transfer the father's or 

 the mother's eyes, bodily, to the child. But such a 

 thing is too absurd to be dreamed of. 



Every one knows that each eye, and every part 

 of it, grows anew, as if the parents of the embryo had 

 no eyes. Neither Darwin, nor any other man has ever 

 shown how it is possible for the eyes of the father 

 or mother to modify or affect the development, growth, 

 form, size, color, qualities or characteristics of the 

 child's eyes. According to Darwin's theory of "gem- 

 mules' the eyes of the father and mother give off 

 gemmules which get into his or her blood and thence 

 into the spermatozoon and the ovum and thence into 

 the fertilized ovum and these produce eyes, in the 

 child, like those of its parents. But everybody saw that 

 these "gemmules" would have great difficulty in find- 

 ing the spermatozoon and ovum, and in getting into 



