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maim suggested that frhe concepts of "strug- 

 gle" and '.'selection" might. 

 extended to the individual items 

 pose L the germ-Dlaspi. or, what comes to the 

 same thing, the inheritance. If we suppose, 

 as there are many reasons for supposing, that 

 the physical basis of inheritance in the^germ- 

 i? ^nrppofifrl ir^f n m T Ui'-MirL> pf 



vita] pai*i"iQQ w^Hh are 



and multiply 



ceiYable that_ fluctuations in the ^nutritjye 

 supply Qf the-.g^rm-cells._gnd inequalities 



hfiEfiditary c^ngtituenls, may result 



and ^lection. 



^ 



The general fdea is a familiar one, that 

 nothing succeeds like success; and vice 

 versa. A .strengthened repr^sentative^iiem 

 of dqterminrmt m -tba 



jn]fliTi^ant1y-tl..itg TiQi'gh^. 



It may get into a permanent up- 

 ward movement, and attain a degree from 

 which there is no falling back." On the 

 other hand, _a weakened determinant will 

 havelesg ppwer of 



If it be the deter- 

 minant of sqnigjJiinisefu then theordmai 



eu ten teormaiy 



tJb_indiviHnnl that dpvelnp^ Jrnm th^ 



gsrffl.-fifiU>' if it be the determi- 



