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admitted, however, that my theory does not necessarily agree with that used 
in genetics, but is rather to be regarded as the latter theory expanded to the 
utmost limit”. 
Now, in order to help my readers to understand my theory, it is necessary 
to insist on the law of substance, ie. the conservation of energy and the 
indestructibility of matter; that the universe in its real entity is ever the 
same —— the same now as in the past and as in the future; that it is only the 
phenomena which change from time to time; and that there can be neither 
increase nor decrease in its real entity. All individuals in the universe have 
close relations with the whole (ie. the universe), and their real entities are 
something like the meshes of a net, whose therads extend in all directions 
through the universe; some of the threads being represented by chemical 
affinities or physical gravity. To divide the whole into parts is something 
like moving the interwoven threads of meshes hither and thither with one’s 
fingers ; for, though the whole is divisible into parts as it seems, these parts 
are still connected one with another by the threads. Individuals though 
they be called, they are not by any means in a condition of isolation, Dut 
rather are closely related to the whole. Thus, as a part moves, so moves the 
whole itself — that assemblage of many parts. 
All individuals alike possess innumerable genes or factors’. The 
former present various phenomena according as, on the one hand, the latter 
are potent or latent; and on the other, according to the different combinations 
or seggregations of potent genes. Consequently, the relation of one individual 
to the others in phenomenal appearance is the relation of mutual participation 
or sharing of potent and latent genes in individuals. 
Then, too, all genes in individuals may be apparent at one time and 
latent at another, and may change their characters, according to conditions. 
1) Cf. Moreay, T. H.—The theory of the gene, in Am. Nat. (1917) Vol. 51, pp. 513-520. 
2) My idea is somewhat comparable to Vines’ opinion that “the ultimate members, root, 
stem, leaf, may in this view be looked upon as potentially present even in the unicellular plant, 
just as man is potentially in the Amoeba; and their gradual unfolding is but a matter of time 
and the realisation of their inherent tendency to complexity, much as we have in the spore or 
the ovum the potentialities which we see realised as it grows into w plant.” ....... [Cf. GREEN, 
J.R.— A History of Botany, (Oxford 1909) p. 83]. 
