76 HEREDITY. 



a careless foot. Everywhere the co-ordinating powers 

 land on the bioplasmic shore, each with a constitu- 

 tion drawn up beforehand in the cabin of its May- 

 flower. [Applause.] 



The constitution of a germ is a compact which 

 cannot be lightly changed. We see that there must 

 be conflicts in the tropical forest. There are the 

 Norse palms and the Puritan pines. Here are the 

 Dutch and the Norwegians ; here are all tribes of 

 men represented by the different classes of vegeta- 

 tion. They collide ; they are all under the law of 

 the struggle for existence and the survival of the 

 fittest ; but they adhere to their types. These com- 

 pacts, arranged in the cabins of the Mayflowers, are 

 respected in spite of all jostlings of forces off their 

 grooves. Indeed, there is no jostling of a force off 

 its grooves, unless after ages and ages of slight vari- 

 ation. I am not denying the law of variation in 

 asserting roundly the law of heredity in sameness. 

 The plan is there as the bioplasmic boats land ; and 

 we may defy all science to deny the assertion that 

 every thing there is in the form of the palm is in the 

 plan that was arranged in the cabin of the Mayflower 

 of the palm before the boat of the palm touched the 

 coast. Every thing there is in the plan of the par- 

 rot was in the thought of the occupants of the May- 

 flower of the parrot before it landed. There is a 

 constitution brought to the Plymouth Rock of every 

 germ. In that constitution, I hold that we have a 

 plan, not only of the form of the body, but of the 

 faculties and intuitive beliefs of the soul. [Ap- 

 plause.] 



