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variations were in the line of this adjustment of the eyes, 

 until finally the two eyes were found on the same side. So 

 fruitful variation and evolution is in the line set and main- 

 tained by the individual accommodations, quite in the 

 absence of determinate variation. 



§ 2. Selections and Selection 



3. Without going into the question, it may yet be 

 said that the position taken by Professor Poulton in the 

 matter of the relation of natural to organic selection — 

 that plasticity is itself due to natural selection — is, as he 

 says, that advocated here ; but I have given natural 

 selection still further emphasis by making the 'functional 

 selection from overproduced movements,' whereby motor 

 accommodations are secured, itself a case of natural selec- 

 tion broadly understood. I have recently drawn up a 

 table showing the various sorts of * selection ' under the 

 distinction of 'means' and immediate 'result,' finding 

 some fourteen sorts of selection, and venture to reprint 

 this table here.^ 



Certain remarks may be added to which I give numbers 

 corresponding to those topics in the table to which they 

 respectively relate : — 



4, 5, 6. By a singular coincidence M. Delage uses the 

 phrase ' selection organique ' {^Struct, du Protoplasma, 

 etc., p. 732) to describe Roux' 'Struggle of the parts,' 

 akin to functional selection. Seeing that Weismann's 



1 The terms in the table which relate to social evolution are fully explained 

 in the work, Social and Ethical Interpretations, Index and Appendix B, where 

 acknowledgment is made of suggestions from Professor Lloyd Morgan. Ap- 

 pendix B is omitted from the third edition (1902) of that work, seeing that 

 the table is now printed here. 



