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sought to explain these morphologically : i.e., it sought 

 in the abstract study of forms sometimes geometrical, 

 sometimes artistic the key to an understanding of the 

 recurrence as well as the continued variation of definite 

 types. The relationship was mostly looked upon as ideal, 

 not real. How a gradual change came over this view 

 of nature, how the study of development led on to the 

 modern phase of natural science which is governed by the 

 genetic view, I shall try to show in the next chapter. 



