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2. The Directive Discipline of the Germ. That 

 thing which the germ tends to become, depends first 

 on its own peculiar attributes of structure and qual- 

 ity; and second, on the time and space relations to one 

 another the products of its growth are compelled to as- 

 sume at each successive stage. The germinal materials, 

 apparently, impose this directive discipline on their 

 products, as long as growth continues. 



But the volume, or quality, of the final product can- 

 not depend on the number of such germinal units orig- 

 inally present in the germ, for if that were so the same 

 results would sooner or later follow from the growth 

 of one unit, or a hundred, or a thousand. Neither can 

 the variety of unlike structures in the final product de- 

 pend on the variety of initial germinal units; for other- 

 wise there would be no progressive organization, no 

 successive change in form and structure and quality, 

 and no unlike creative values in time and space. 



The changing internal conditions created by 

 growth, and which govern all the constituent orbits of 

 conduct, cannot be conveyed from one generation to 

 another in the same sense that the initial germinal ma- 

 terials with their attributes are conveyed. They are 

 conditions, however, which must necessarily arise in 

 some definite sequence, and to which the actual hered- 

 itary materials must submit, or in accordance with 

 which they are compelled to express their own activi- 

 ties. 



3. The Cumulative Discipline of Organized En- 

 dowments, Structural and Bionomic. The germinal 

 endowments of life cannot exist by themselves alone. 

 They are wholly dependent on other endowments, such 

 as rightly constructed foods, right kinds of protecting 



