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isation, so that each succeeding generation represents an 

 advance, though it may be a slight one, on its predecessors. 

 The advance may not be at all perceptible for many gene- 

 rations, but then a new and distinctly more highly organised 

 form appears, as in cases of what is termed saltatory evo- 

 lution. Naegeli conceives the matter in this way, that the 

 idioplasm of every organism tends to become more and more 

 complex ; that is, to become more and more completely 

 differentiated physiologically and therefore also morpho- 

 logically. On this view we can readily understand how that, 

 step by step, there have sprung from simply organised plants 

 others of increasingly complex organisation. Evolution is no 

 longer a matter of chance, but is the inevitable outcome of a 

 fundamental property of living matter. 



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