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throughout the world. Of course such cred- 

 ence is directly opposed to science which, 

 however, has given us the remarkable trans- 

 formation of the butterfly and other insects 

 till the return to the first shape. But this is 

 not Heterogenesis proper, which the scientific 

 mind on the whole is inclined to deny. 



Now the fact is that Life as a whole, the 

 Earth-life, has brought forth many very di- 

 verse individuals and species, from the 

 amoeba to man. Indeed, the ever-varying 

 forms of both Plant and Animal are more 

 striking than anything else about them. This 

 diversity of living Nature in the matter of 

 species is what started Darwin on the road 

 to find their unity. The Earth-life, accord- 

 ingly, has been heterogenetic, producing vi- 

 tal difference in abundant quantity; on the 

 other hand the individual life of Plant and 

 Animal is homogenetic, producing the like in 

 its offshoots. Thus the universal Life in its 

 productivity shows a character quite opposite 

 to the individual Life, which the scientist so 

 fully records. ' It must bring forth the unlike 

 as well as the like, difference as well as same- 

 ness; in fact, these are two sides of the one 

 process of total Earth-life which must have 

 begotten the present variety of Plant and 

 Animal (Heterogenesis) during its long con- 

 tinuance, and which also includes the repeti- 



