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Prof. Owen on Life and Species. 55 
not admit, however, that it was not formed, or that it did not 
pre-exist; but affirmed that it was too minute to be perceived: 
not until the head and limb-buds of the chick appeared, was 
observed phenomena, To admit that a germ included within 
itself all the forms, in miniature, which were afterward to be 
manifested, and to develop such theory by a matter so inde- 
finable, was to multiply, at will, the most gratuitous supposi- 
tions, 
His opponent’s passages, above quoted, in defense of a doc- 
trine can aeameds = embryologists to be dead and buried, have 
hardly other than historical interest ; and I should not have 
recalled them, or their subject, were it not that ghosts of ‘ pre- 
existence’ and ‘evolution’ still haunt some chambers of the 
physiological mansion, and even exercise, to many, perhaps an 
tur, sed tran: 
icuum.”—xxvi’’, tom. viii, sectio 2da. p. 150-156. ‘Also ‘ Mémoire IL, 
la formation du Poulet,’ p. 182. = as eee 
+ coovit'’’, tom. iv, p. 277. } Anat. Philos., vol. ii, p 280. 
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