56 Prof. Owen on Life and Species. 
properly nourished, again ae by self-division, and grew 
to the likeness of the parent-cells, 
Those who still hold by this rag of ‘ pre-existence of germs, 
call all organic corpuscles or granules ‘ cell-gemmules,’ and 
maintain that they are transmitted, sometimes becoming devel- 
oped, sometimes lying dormant from generation to generation, 
independent, automonous, pre-existing from their primal mirac- 
ulous creation, as descendants, like all higher forms of life ‘ of 
that one form of “Natural Selection” into which life was first 
breathed.’ Darwin grafts upon this modification of the old 
evolutional dogma* his provisional hypothesis of ‘ Pangenesis,’ 
(cccvul)”. 
In like manner the Evolutionists hold that every single-celled 
= torule, organic molecule, out of the body, arises from 
ying — this rp — enone pT described in oxi, I was led to re- 
eee all! cells’ or organ cerned in rebegeceneg and repair as the prog- 
eny of the sears germ-c mail t in apiey ovarium of the mother, and to be in that sense 
‘derivative.’ Save in the case of the hypothetical + primordial created ed such 
primary ovarian cell in the - is an: sexual organisms I rega impreg- 
nated. The derivative cells or organic units iit, tea themselves independently 
of direct sexual intercourse ; ps that they should not be agi Od directly 
po to the act by which their seat, the ier veloped o ogeak to be, —in 
organism, or its parthenogenetically ite aoe | ofepring, the * ‘eels ” sub- 
sequently were i inconceivable o e then accepted hypothe- 
sis of ‘ pre-existence Ore Taso * Womnta cellula e era Mr. Darwin, how- 
oO sms—as e. g. ‘ when a stag is gemmules derived from the an 
lers of nip s crodiitees quite fail to heute developed.” ih, ii, p. 399): to each I should 
reply as to this case:—Such stag first existed as an impregnated unit in the ovi- 
aneal ene of the mother. By the ‘ spontaneous fission’ or ‘cleavage process 
f im 
it must have ome as am — 0 es. Accepting the non- ] 
gemm 
me of these gemmules ines derived from the antlers of its 
yet yet, they a are ce less He oreo y of the primary at which was formed 
eg al e female and w oct Se a T fail, 
th 
gard as as fundamentally erroneous; et so far as they ar is Ear based on 
‘ pre-existence ’- aged Bi vanes cellula,’ &e. 
} ce. ii ee eS 
are derived existi “seer 7 626); the phenomenon of the pale or =| 
r 28 +d to ] =: a bd “i 
ory: organic as 
‘ erystallization, "in the other ‘ formi- 
was rst Pirin fluid naling a rsa 
:Piashatined tal difference’ vege Mr. Dar- - 
1868 and mine of 1849 (cxLU, p. 58). thofthemI . | 
