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(4) The fourth question stated above may be termed 

 Weismann's problem. It has caused more discussion than any 

 other Darwinian question, and has divided evolutionists into 



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two camps. It is by no means solved as yet, though perhaps 

 at times we feel that we have a glimmering of the solution. 



These, and other similar problems, are of the highest interest 

 to biologists, and not without their bearing on human life, but 



