Physical and Teleological views of Organization. 93 
transference takes place.* 'To urge that that only which is sub- 
stantial can be transferred, is to reason on the ground that a phe- 
homenon in nature is impossible because it eludes our observation 
and analysis. 
In the phenomena of generation we certainly have proved to 
us that there may be a division of power or quality without a 
wus; have before said, the spermatic particle is the po- 
tential representative of the whole male being. It contains with- 
mit the totality of the peculiarities of the individual in which 
ithas been formed. These spermatic particles are constantly 
formed, and in the case of any of the higher animals, literally 
‘ons are yearly evolved ; yet each possesses the powers of the 
other, and of the whole animal: and the animal certainly loses 
hone of its individuality by such a constant division. 
ei € objections of Schwann, to the teleological view of organ- 
'0n, are therefore, more specious than valid, because the reality 
of the very conditions objected to has an expression in quite com- 
mon phenomena. 
ee cell studies connected with the subject of generation, 
Most t, as we have seen, these doctrines of teleology find their 
_ Nequivocal ‘support.t : bi Megs 3 
we Underlying determinate idea of organization. 
to this point, Mulder (Loe. cit.) takes a different view. He thinks 
: i re is no transmission 
out sim ply 
if this makes the matter any more clear? Yon are obliged on this suppo- 
scoring 
an 
ease of a magnet magnetizing a piece of iron, there 2 
"fore, bu ply an poets of Cheabcrine forces in the iron. It might well 
asked 
“on to admi 
t the existence of latent forces in the iron, and this is “ unphysical ” 
his own admissi ulder says, “A weak force is strengthened ; it is 
from i : 
Awe. 
that in the 
in all cases it much more to the object of sei- 
explanation 
‘ s in physical forms. This objec 
Tt must | liability to error in interpreting natural phenomena, than upon real grounds, 
of our pe® Tegarded in the “tend tag nal Copnectol ats tik on 
be strictly. .. There is, however, as we have seen, a danger, that in endeavoring to 
we may become highly “unphysical,” not’ to say unphilosophical. 
