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repeat in all essentials the life-history of the parent. If, 

 on the other hand, it is not so like the mother-country in 

 agricultural prospects, but more fruitful in game, we should 

 get a hunting community. The iron ploughs would be 

 turned into spears. Furthermore, we must remark that 

 the nature of the new organism depends very largely on 

 what was in the ship, and its nature. If unfertilized, i.e. 

 without men, it must either die or get fertilized by native 

 males. In that case the " tools," or catalysts of both 

 parties would be utilized according to the common ability 

 of both. There would arise a different species, and a 

 further budding or colonization would carry away a new 

 set of morphogenetic materials. 



Provided, however, that the ship was " fertilized," an 

 iron or wooden ship might develop two different kinds of 

 civilization, especially if they were wrecked, and the tools 

 of mitotic material lost. But without disaster a state would 

 develop in accordance with its tools and seeds and weapons. 

 There is no need to be led away from the physical side of 

 the problem to that complex of physics and bio-chemistry 

 which we call psychology. The knowledge and traditions 

 of the colonists are its protoplasmic character, which again 

 has been determined, and is, the result of long ages of other 

 tools. That is to say, the character is the tools used plus 

 the protoplasmic energy. 



On this analysis we see how transmission of un- 

 altered characters takes place, and even the Wies- 

 mannists may agree. But, furthermore, we observe that 

 race characteristics and habits and customs are modified 

 by the environment, and that a new metal, a new 

 cereal or root or fruit, may not only bring about 

 modifications, but be transmitted. Some real thing, 

 tool or catalyst, is transmitted and carried away 



