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transrau table in the sense used by Mr. Darwin. 

 On the contrary, we have evidence so strong and 

 overwhelming on the other side of the question, 

 that it is perfectly astonishing how any person, 

 much less a distinguished naturalist, could have 

 arrived at the same conclusion as he has done. 

 "In a word," writes an elegant American 

 author, Dr. Brackenridge Clemens, "regeneration 

 is a manifestation of continuous growth in 

 species in their respective cycles of organic 

 evolution around which the structural processes 

 revolve, and repeat themselves, continuously and 

 precisely what hud been accomplished by pre- 

 existing representative bodies, without power to 

 exceed or restrict a designated and pre-ordained 

 orbit. And for each there is a persisting life, 

 never intermitted for an instant of time, running 

 through a chain of representative bodies, and 

 reaching from the first created conception, not 

 only to the present time, but into that future 

 when organic existence shall have terminated. 

 This produces, and must continue to produce, 

 successive representatives, which harmonize and 

 agree with the original and inceptive organism, 

 and are not only similar to it, but identical 

 amongst themselves. The mind can detect no 

 essential difference on which to establish dis- 

 tinctions, and we recognise them as the same 

 beings, the same conception, whatever may be 

 their geographical origin; all structural differences 

 have disappeared, and investigation proves that 

 each individual repeats and reiterates one and 



