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sexual activity. The egg is a potential individual as shown by the 

 facts of parthenogenesis, where, without fertilization, the egg develops 

 to form a new individual. The first appearance of this individual 

 goes back to the germ-glands, where it results from the division of an 

 oogonium. Here is the reproductive act proper ; fertilization is only 

 the liberation of an inhibited development through which the poten- 

 tial individual becomes actual. It leads to no increase, but rather to 

 decrease of individuals, since two potential individuals egg-cell and 

 sperm-cell join to form one body." l 



The phrase " liberation of an inhibited development," if applied to 

 the effect of conjugation among the Protozqa, might be translated into 

 Biitschli's " Verjiingung " ('76), or Engelmann's "Reorganization" 

 ('76), or Maupas's " Rejeunissement." In no case does word or 

 phrase explain the phenomenon. From all the facts known at the 

 present time, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that conjuga- 

 tion, apparently, is not the cause of reproduction, but as Biitschli, 

 Engelmann, and Minot long since pointed out, in some unknown 

 way provides the energy for continuing the functions of the indi- 

 vidual, including the power of reproducing. 



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