bodies from unfertilized ovum), A. E. Gaisinovich noticed 

 that the scientists of that time... lost sight of that it 

 proved in the best case only ovism but not preformation 

 (Cited article in the edition of translation "Theory of 

 conception" of Wolff, 1950, p. 379). With the latter con- 

 firmation, it is difficult to agree: ovism is one of two 

 forms of the preformation theory and is principally 

 identical with its other form — animalculism. (40) 



(19) After that the chapters of this book, dedicated 

 by Wolff, were written, he mentioned in the preface 

 "Theory of conception" of Wolff (Publisher House Ac. Sc. 

 USSR, 1950) which was published with the supplement of 

 article A. E. Gaisinovich "K. F. Wolff and studies on 

 development" (pp. 363-477) Tasks, which the author of this 

 interesting article put before himself, did not allow him, 

 apparently, to stop and dwell in more detail on embryolog- 

 ical and teratological works of Wolff. 



Here it is also necessary to notice that the transla- 

 tion replaced in the Russian edition of Wolff the term 

 "generation" by the word "conception", which could not be 

 considered felicitous. The term "conception" meant the 

 beginning stage of development, appearance of a new individ- 

 ual, while Wolff did not mean only this stage, but also all 

 subsequent individual development. It is completely accurate 

 to translate "generation" by the word "development". Wolff 

 himself used in his German book neither the term "conception" 

 (Entstehung) nor the term "development" (Entwickelung) , and 

 dept the Latin root in the German word "die Generation". In 

 accordance with this, upon the examination of Wolff's dis- 

 sertation and its popular summary in German below the original 

 Wolff term "generation" is preserved (43) . 



(20) In the first volume of "Zur Morphologie" Gete 

 mentioned Wolff in four places. He gave a brief account of 

 biography of Wolff (p. 80-83), mentioned in the notes of 

 Murzinitsa on Wolff (p. 252-256), then dwelt on studies of 

 Wolff about metamorphosis of plants (p. 83-87) . At last he 

 tackled the understanding of educational yearning, using the 

 terms of Blumenbakh (pp. 114-116). 



In the last extract Gete writes the following "In 

 criticism of ability to reach an opinion" Kant states "In 



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