438 LAWS OF MULTIPLICATION. 



all unlikenesses among the circumstances in which organ- 

 isms are placed. At the outset, we will turn our attention 

 wholly to the antagonism displayed between the integrative 

 process which results in individual evolution and the disinte- 

 grative process which results in multiplication of individuals ; 

 and this we will consider first as we see it under the several 

 forms of agamogenesis, and then as we see it under the 

 several forms of gamogenesis. We will next look at the 

 antagonism between propagation and that evolution which is 

 shown by increased complexity. And then we will consider 

 the remaining phase of the antagonism, as it exists between 

 the degree of fertility and the degree of evolution expressed 

 by activity. 



Afterwards, passing to the varying relations between 

 organisms and their environments, we will note how relative 

 increase in the supply of food, or relative decrease in the 

 quantity of force expended by the individual, entails relative 

 increase in the quantity of force devoted to multiplication, 

 and vice versa. 



Certain minor qualifications, together with sundry impor- 

 tant corollaries, may then be entered upon. 



