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pronouncing it, in the light of the success it brings, 
to be good, or cursing it effectively by sinking with 
it into extinction. For there are variations that 
kill, being pathological—the germinal artist is not 
always quite sane—as well as variations that enrich 
and make for progress. 
Four saving-clauses may be permitted. We must 
not think of the microcosmic individuality of the 
germ-cell in any wooden or one-sided way. We 
cannot conceive how it has unified in its pin’s-head 
scope the long results of time, the treasures of the 
ages; but so it is. We do not understand how it is 
not merely protoplasm, but a daimon as well; but 
so it is. Secondly, we must not exaggerate the 
difficulty of understanding how the microcosmic 
individuality can make experiments—materially 
regarded, permutations and combinations of mole- 
cules—which have relevancy in relation to the outer 
world in which the macrocosmic individual will live 
and work. It is metaphorically like this, that within 
the germ-cell there is an achitecture—ideally re- 
garded, an idea—which represents the hereditary 
organization and has stood the test of time. Now, 
the changes that can be profitably made in this 
architecture must be more or less congruent with 
the already established style, just as an experiment 
in our thinking, if it is to be successful and to 
survive, must be consonant with already established 
truth. Therefore the germ-cell’s initiatives, though 
sometimes fools’ experiments, partake but little of 
the fortuitous. 
