And next: "Although sperm do not contain particles from 

 each member separately, there is no such production of the 

 organism which has fulfilled all the conditions of its 

 process, and where the idea of life appears possible to the 

 extent that the organism is represented in reality. "$S 



All that was stated represents a complete idealistic 

 system of opinion on development and heredity, which takes 

 its root directly from Schelling, which in turn represents, 

 to a certain extent, a revival of the Platonic view of the 

 material world as an imperfect reflection of the world 

 idea. 



The anatomical, physiological, and particularly the 

 embryological ideas of Vellanskii are given here with the 

 aim of showing an example of the expressed effect of 

 German Naturphilosophie on individual representatives of 

 Russian biological science. Strictly speaking, this example 

 is unique in its type. Vellanskii did not find enough like- 

 minded persons in his mother country for him to continue. His 

 efforts to call attention to the ideas of Naturphilosophie 

 remained useless. Only in Moscow University, under the 

 influence of M. G. Pavlov, did a certain interest in 

 Naturphilosophie appear, and its weak outgrowths can be 

 traced up to the middle of the 1830s. 



Michael Grigor'evich Pavlov (1793 - 1839) participated in 

 1813 in a spiritual seminar at Moscow University. He 

 finished outstandingly in two faculties at once — mathematics 

 and medicine — and in 1818 obtained the degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine. He devoted his dissertation to the embryological 

 problem of nourishment of the human fetus. 36 



35. Ibid ., p. 424. 



36. DISSERTATIO INAUGURALIS PHYSIOLOGICO-OBSTETRICIA 

 DE NUTRITIONE FOETUS HUMAN I , QUAM . . . PRO 

 GRADU DOCTORIS MEDICINAE . . . ELABORAVIT ET 

 PUBLICE DEFENDET Michael Pavlov. Moscow, 1818, 87 pp. 



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