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sought to explain these morphologically : i.e., it sought 

 in the abstract study of forms — sometimes geometrical, 

 sometimes artistic — the key to an understanding of the 

 recurrence as well as the continued variation of definite 

 types. The relationship was mostly looked upon as ideal, 

 not real. How a gradual change came over this view 

 of nature, how the study of development led on to the 

 modern phase of natural science which is governed by the 

 genetic view, I shall try to show in tlie next chapter. 



