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should accordingly be discarded. This in fact is what has 

 actually happened. The theory as Darwin stated it has no 

 supporters at present. Those who now hold, in a modified 

 form, that acquired characters are inherited, have adopted 

 other ways of explaining their inheritance, or else, with De- 

 lage, admit the inadequacy of Darwin's explanation and 

 state that no satisfactory substitute has yet been found, but 

 entertain the hope that one will yet be discovered. 



