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geotropic shoots curve round and grow upwards into the air, 

 or become apogeotropic. Here, therefore, chemoenergids, or 

 photoenergids, or both combined probably in the side-shoots, 

 overcome the action of the geoenergids after removal of the 

 upper part of the main axis. 



In turning to animals for evidence as to cognitic energy, 

 the old familiar dictum that animals move and feel at once 

 indicates their high cognitic sense and their decided advance 

 on the whole in rapid response to environal stimuli over most 

 plants. But the motile stage of many algae and fungi, as 

 well as motile plant spermatozoids with their demonstrated 

 keen chemotactic perception and response, are proof that many 

 unicellular plants or plant phases may closely resemble animals. 



Mention of spermatozoids at this transition stage in our 

 discussion of plant and animal response causes us to observe 

 that their mode of origin and growth show them to be largely 

 naked motile chromatin or nucleolar-nuclear bodies. Now 

 each carries, locked up in its molecular substance, not merely 

 sufficient energy to enable it to spin forward in continuous 

 gyratory fashion, for from thirty to sixty minutes at least, 

 but, if one of them reaches and fuses with an egg, its absorbed 

 substance so completely permeates, reenergizes, and molds 

 the substance of the egg as to cause the latter to be recognizably 

 affected and modified in every future cell of the organism that 

 the egg gives rise to on segmentation. 



This phenomenon is exactly and strikingly shown in the 

 minute structure of plant hybrids, such as the writer first 

 elucidated in all of their cell details. It has also been shown 

 since to be visibly true at least in the young stages of such 

 animal hybrids as Loeb, Boveri, Morgan, and others have 

 investigated, while the often closely intermediate character 

 of known fish and mammalian hybrids demonstrates a like 

 permeation of sperm characters though the entire cell lineage 

 of each new organism. 



In this case again we are compelled to acceiTt physico-chem- 

 ically that the spermatozoid, or minute male chromatin mass, 

 either introduced so complex and condensed a mass of chemical 



