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day and generation as was true of August Weismann. The spirit 

 of his life and work may be summed up in the beautiful words 

 with which he closes his essay on " Life and Death " : " After all it 

 is the quest after perfected truth, not its possession, that falls to our 

 lot, that gladdens us, fills up the measure of our life, nay! 

 hallows it." 



Edwin G. Conklin. 

 Princeton University, 

 January, 1915. 



