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foundations of chemistry. They mean that heredity is only 

 the sum of all past environment, and that acquired charac- 

 teristics not only may be transmitted, but that they are the 

 only characteristics which are transmitted. They mean the 

 mutability of species and the certainty that Darwin, in large 

 measure at least, was absolutely correct in his conclusions. 

 They stimulate the imagination until man dreams of the fu- 



CHAPTER VI., FIG. 6l. A PITLESS PLUM, PIT SOFT, EASILY SEVERED AND IN 

 PROCESS OF OBLITERATION. 



ture as if he were intoxicated with the fumes of opium. They 

 also reach backward and lay their touch upon -the first hour 

 of time. Darwin did not attempt to define the vital principle 

 which carried forward his evolution. Huxley declared that 

 matter was a "magazine of force." David Starr Jordan be- 

 lieves that the theory of ions will be thrown aside and no 

 line left between force and matter a universe which is all 

 force. Burbank believes in a universe which is all life, soul, 



