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The asexual division can thus be allotted to the somatic 

 sphere of duty when the function of distribution of heredity 

 is assumed elsewhere. The new order of creatures must 

 distribute its heredity by amalgamation, if it is to build up 

 a harmonized community. Without conjugation, experience 

 and evolution would be individual; and as environment 

 varied, so all individuals would vary ; and each line of hered- 

 ity be a species to itself, incapable of organization into col- 

 lective action. After the devotion of ordinary division to 

 body construction the function of sex therefore includes the 

 distribution to the use of the whole species, of the progres- 

 sive heredity of all its members; with a result of harmonious 

 participation in the results of experience, and continued 

 similarity in structure and habits. 



