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possible test but individual opinion to deter 

 mine which of them shall be considered as spe 

 cies and which as varieties." Darwin calls all 

 this "very perplexing," which it undoubtedly 

 is, and he further tells us : " It certainly at first 

 sight appears a highly remarkable fact that 

 the same butterfly should have the power of 

 producing at the same time three distinct fe 

 male forms and a male ; and that an hermaph 

 rodite plant should produce from the same 

 seed-capsule three distinct hermaphrodite 

 forms, bearing three different kinds of females 

 and three or even six different kinds of males. 

 Nevertheless, these cases are only exagger 

 ations of the common fact that the female pro 

 duces offspring of two sexes, which sometimes 

 differ from each other in a wonderful manner." 

 Surely, in all these instances there is no room 

 for evolution. Now let us suppose that Father 

 Wasmann had met with two of those individual 

 types in the course of his investigations, with 

 out any previous knowledge of their close, in 

 timate and immediate relationship. Doubtless 

 he would recognize both as belonging to at 

 least the same order, would determine the spe- 



