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organic structure is only one of those cellular specks 

 of protoplasm. Then it develops into 

 a multicellular mass, without having as ^eiopment. 

 yet any distinct local structures, or or- 

 gans, as they are called. Becoming the subject of 

 further changes, which tend to the production 

 of a complex structure, it now begins to consist 

 of parts different, but mutually dependent. At 

 the respective stages of this development, cer- 

 tain generic likenesses obtain between it and 

 other embryos — rather negative likenesses than 

 positive, becoming less as the positive qualities 

 and organs of each come out more; until all is lost 

 in that specific and unique identity being assumed, 

 which is unmistakable. With regard to these 

 generic or negative likenesses, Mr. Herbert Spencer 

 observes in his Principles of Biology: " The resem- 

 blances which hold together great groups of em- 

 bryos in their early stages, and which hold together 

 smaller and smaller groups in their later stages, are 

 not special and exact, but general or approximate; 

 and in some cases the conformity to this law is very 

 imperfect." 



165. Just one remark here. People go to much 

 pains in finding out points of likeness The 

 between species, to prove their transfor- M Glorious 

 mation. But here is the most plausible Mission." 

 fact of all, that every organism in every species is 

 made up of cells, and every cell of itself is like 

 every cell in any other being, save only in the form 



