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of acquired characters remains exactly where it was. 

 No new facts, and no new considerations of much 

 importance, have been forthcoming to assist us in 

 answering it. Therefore, as already stated in the 

 Preface, I intend to deal with this question hereafter 

 as a question per se, or one which is not specially 

 associated with the labours of Professor Weismann. 



