146 THE EVOLUTION OF CONTINUITY 



early developing Individual and altering the realisation of 

 its potentialities. 



That in certain circumstances Acquired Variations can 

 reappear in the offspring as " characters." 



That the different forms of living Continuity in the world 

 are clear examples of past " transmissible " environmental 

 modification. 



That Life itself appeared as an acquired variation, and 

 the successive forms of living Continuity as the basic " sub- 

 variations " of living evolution. 



That the Living was a modification of the Inorganic, 

 and that at successive periods living Continuity was multi- 

 plied or intensified into higher and higher forms by environ- 

 mental modification. That each type of living Continuity 

 was so modified in certain numbers, the remainder passing 

 down their arrested Continuity as fundamental character. 



