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ference. Yet no one will pretend to deny that in the one li 
concealed all that belonging to a robin, and in the other all that 
longing to. a hawk. This will bear no other interpretation. 
ere you have very dissimilar powers and forces in apparently 
identical material forms; and unless we declare that these differ- 
ent powers and forces existed before aud aside from the material 
form, instead of gradually accruing to it, as a particular charac- 
ter was assumed, we shall be at a loss to account for the certainty 
and uniformity of result in every case. Again, the primordial 
material condition of every animal isa nucleated cell, which in 
every case has exactly the same physical aspect. Now in its 
growth to the perfect form, the new material constantly added is 
's extraneous, and there would appear no reason why it should 
always suit the conditions of the case, were there not an underly- 
ig, preéxisting idea. Indeed we might expect an occasional 
blending of dissimilar forms. But this never occurs, and few 
Poluts connected with organization have been more positively 
tmined, than the distinct, unchanging individuality of animal 
and vegetable types. vice 
Mi this point needs further illustration, or even that which 1s 
better, we can find such in the male phenomena of generation. 
it tay be well to discuss briefly a few of these points. 
fivient to-fecundate a single ovum. 3rd. That the physical 
homena of fecundation are those of simple contact alone, of the 
Spermhatic. particle with the ovum; there being no material loss 
00 the part of the former. ie wat Ae 
~ We know very well how important and active a part the male 
Plays in the production of the new being, and I scarcely need 
oye the offspring partakes equally of the physical peculiari- 
tes 
father except through the medium of the spermatic particles, 
'S Irresistible that a single spermatic particle must contain, con- 
Cealed within it, not only shereeditil physical peculiarities of the 
father, but mental dispositions. also, and_as is too often true of 
our own Species, morbid taints swperadded to all. bactal 3 
_*he third and Jast point in the discussion of this subject, is 
7, vection to the teleological view of organization urged by 
Schwana,* and that ‘too, concerning the general phenomena of 
the Subject we have just left—generation. I will quote the en- 
_* Passage that there may be no misapprehension of the idea in- 
* Loe. citat., Syd. Soc. 2d., p. 189. 
