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But neither size, nor cell-content, nor complexity, has any- 

 thing to do with forms of living Continuity as forms. Size, 

 it would seem, but manifests the degree to which the inter- 

 mediate cycle-product of the Individual is allowed or 

 encouraged to develop as fixed cell-species which can never 

 become sexual cell-species ; while, within a given form of 

 Continuity endless variation is possible. 



The above brief suggestions may well seem startling to 

 the reader, but they are perfectly in harmony with our 

 theory of Continuity's evolution. The Segmental Individual 

 offers itself to us as a further victory of Attraction, or 

 compressing force, over Repulsion, or separating force. 



The different forms of living Continuity have originated 

 as the fundamental Acquired Variations behind all living 

 Evolution ; variations, be it noted, acquired during develop- 

 ment. Each advance, it clearly seems, has been the result 

 of sudden modification of a previous plan at the call of 

 special Environmental action or influence. The hereditary 

 plan has been altered, as it attempted to realise itself, by 

 influences always making for closer and closer Continuity. 

 The fundamental "evolution of species " has been that of 

 the " Species of Continuity." 



