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CHAPTER VII. 



PSYCHOGENESIS. 



A plant has memory in Bering's and Samuel Butler's sense of the 

 word, according to which memory and inheritance are different aspects 

 of the same quality of living things. SIK FBANCIS DAHWIN. 



The complaint so often brought against me of not having made 

 experiments is about as reasonable as complaint against an architect 

 on the score of his not having quarried with his own hands a single 

 one of the stones which he has used in building. 



Buffon did infinitely more in the way of discovering and establish- 

 ing the theory of descent with modification than any one has ever done 

 either before or since. 



Lamarck was the Lazarus of biology. I wish his more fortunate 

 brethren, instead of intoning the old Church argument that he has 

 " been refuted over and over again " would refer us to some of the best 

 chapters in the writers who have refuted him. 



Mr. Darwin wanted to move his generation, and had the penetra- 

 tion to see that this is not done by saying a thing once for all and 

 leaving it. 



Form is mind made manifest in flesh through action. 



SAMUEL BUTLEE. 



Tout depend en definitive de la valeur que vous accordez a la vie 

 de 1'esprit. 



Or n'est-ce pas une consequence du darwinisme que de nous repre- 

 senter 1'evolution des etres comme independante de toute visee? Ne nous 

 decouvre-t-il pas, dans leur ascension, une ceuvre toute mecanique, la 

 resultante de frottements et de tassements dans lesquels 1'esprit n'a pas 

 a intervenir? Pas plus qu'elle n'implique de visee, la theorie de la lutte 

 pour la vie n'implique done meme d'effort. C. BOUGLIS. 



The science of Psychology deals with matters too remote 

 from the factors and the lines of thought dealt with in this 

 volume to be more than superficially touched upon, and it is 

 not intended in this chapter to enter into the intricacies of 

 modern Psychology ; but merely to emphasize the dependence 



