216 Summary of Intracellular Pangenesis 



function. During this passage they can be transported 

 by the currents of the protoplasm and carried into the 

 various organs of the protoplasts. Here they unite with 

 the pan gens that are already present, multiply, and 

 begin their activity. All protoplasm consists of such 

 pangens, derived at different times from the nucleus, to- 

 gether with their descendants. There is in it no other 

 living basis. 



The elaboration of this hypothesis, given in the pre- 

 ceeding chapters, is only an outline, the purpose of which 

 was to make the main idea comprehensible. It is, for the 

 present, the simplest form in which pangenesis can accom- 

 modate itself to our present knowledge of the structure 

 of the cell. In details I am well aware of not having been 

 able always to find the right explanation. But the only 

 object I had in mind was to demonstrate how easily the 

 greatly misjudged pangenesis covers all the facts discov- 

 ered since its establishment ! 



