CHAPTER VII. 



THE ANTAGONISM BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT AND GENESIS, 

 ASEXUAL AND SEXUAL. 



343. By Development, as here to be dealt with apart 

 from Growth, is meant increase of structure as distinguished 

 from increase of mass. As was pointed out in 50, this is 

 the biological definition of the word. In the following 

 sections, then, we have to note how complexity of organiza 

 tion is hindered by reproductive activity, and conversely. 



This relation partially coincides with that which we have 

 just contemplated ; for, as was shown in 44, degree of 

 growth is to a considerable extent dependent on degree of 

 organization. But while the antagonism to be illustrated in 

 this chapter, is much entangled with that illustrated in the 

 last chapter, it may be so far separated as to be identified as 

 an additional antagonism. 



Besides the direct opposition between that continual dis 

 integration which rapid genesis implies, and the fulfilment of 

 that pre-requisite to extensive organization the formation of 

 an extensive aggregate, there is an indirect opposition which 

 we may recognize under several aspects. The change 



from homogeneity to heterogeneity takes time ; and time taken 

 in transforming a relatively-structureless mass into a de 

 veloped individual, delays the period of reproduction. Usually 

 this time is merged in that taken for growth ; but certain 

 cases of metamorphosis show us the one separate from the 



