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livino- units, the cliromosomes, which adjust themselves in the 

 most'^momentous of organic compromises. Is it fanciful to suppose 

 that these gametes— neither simple cells nor portmanteaus ot 

 hereditary factors, but unified individualities — experiment 

 internally, not fortuitously but artistically, not at random nor yet 

 inexorably, not purposefully but perhaps purposively, and that 

 they are as truly body-minds or mind-bodies as Amceba^ or 

 as Men ? 



