parts of the human body are contained. The baby in the 

 uterus of the mother has already roots of beard and hair, 

 which he will carry. In a similar way, in this small mass, 

 are contained all features of the body as well as all those, 

 which will be present in his posterity" (see Dzh. Needham, 

 History of Embryology, page 76) (37) . 



(11) The theory of "investment", conformable to plants 

 and animals, was stated by Mal'bransh in the following 

 expressions: "It seems, although it may be a hardly- 

 accepted idea, that in one embryo a countless number of trees 

 is included, because this embryo does not include only a 

 tree, serving as its seed, but also, great number of seeds, 

 which can include new trees and new seeds of trees, contain- 

 ing, in turn, probably in an incomprehensible little form, 

 other trees and other seeds, are fruit bearing as the first 

 and so on till infinity. All what is mentioned about plants 

 and embryos can be also applied on animals and their embryos, 

 from which they were produced. In the embryo of a bulb of 

 tulip, it is possible to distinguish all tulips. Thus in 

 the embryo of a fresh non-hatching egg as well, it is possible 

 to see a chick, which may be nearly completely formed. In 

 the eggs of frogs, it is easy to recognize frogs, we will 

 also find other animals in their embryo when we become so 

 experienced and skilful, that we can open them (N. Mal'bransh. 

 "seeking out truth" translated by E. B. Smelovaya, V. I, 1903, 

 p. 51-52) (38) . 



(12). Speaking of the influence of the mother's impres- 

 sion on the formation of fetus, Mal'bransh, among other 

 examples, mentions the following: "One year did not elapse 

 still from that time, when a woman, looking with great zeal 

 on the picture of Saint Pia at the time of the celebration of 

 his canonization, delivered a child, absolutely like the Saint 

 He had senile face, which was impossible for a child, but did 

 not possess a beard. His hands were put together as cross 

 on the chest, his eyes were directed to the sky. He had a 

 very small forehead, because on the picture, the image of 

 this Saint was raised to the dome of the church, directed to 

 the sky, so that his forehead was nearly unnoticed. On his 

 shoulders, he had something like overturned mitre with some 

 round birth marks, at these places where mitres were decorated 

 with precious stones. In short, this infant extremely 



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