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are first established, and then intermediate axioms are tried and proved 

 by them, is the parent of error and the curse of all science " {Novum 

 Organum, I, 69). This method has been particularly unfortunate in its 

 application to the structural and genetical interpretation of meiosis. 

 The relations between the several stages of any process must be deter- 

 mined before any interpretation of the whole can be attempted. 



