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26o THEORETICAL BIOLOGY 



markedly altered, and that of sex is often completely sup- 

 pressed, as in the case of sexless workers and soldiers among 

 the bees and ants. Which demonstrates, in a very striking 

 way, that not only is the individual organism able to live 

 without the sex circle, but that it even displays an increase 

 in its other functions. When the community selects only 

 certain individuals for reproduction, the species-impetus 

 becomes suppressed in the other members of the community. 



It is impossible not to recognise here that three rules 

 interlock in conformity with plan. 



In the majority of animals, it is only the rules of the 

 individual and of the species that take part in shaping the 

 organism ; in all communities a third rule is added to these. 

 In spite of this incredibly heavy handicap, the result is always 

 a perfect conformity with plan. 



And there is spread out before our eyes a multiform 

 wealth of transitional forms, which we can only describe as 

 countless variations on the theme of life. 



Only through complete misapprehension have these 

 transitions been regarded as links between the more perfect 

 and the less. The central power, to which we give the name 

 of " life," is, by its very nature, in accord with plan, and quite 

 incapable of producing anything void of plan and imperfect. 



THE EVOLUTION OF SPECIES 



It is remarkable, to say the least of it, that the Darwinians 

 always speak of the evolution of the individual, but never 

 of the evolution of species, although they distinguish between 

 highly evolved animals and primitive animals. 



Indeed the entire genealogical tree of animals, which 

 we see depicted in zoological text-books, is supposed to 

 represent an evolutionary sequence from the simple to the 

 complex. And Darwinians love to place the evolutionary 



