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framing any new hypothesis, this mode of viewing 

 geneagenesis agrees with all the results of direct 

 observation and experiment ; it leads from the best 

 known and simplest facts presented by ordinary 

 growth, to the most complex and most recently dis- 

 covered phenomena of the production of generations ; 

 it explains the neutrality of all the intermediate series 

 of the latter, accounts for multiplication by agamic in- 

 dividuals, and justifies the existence of cycles, which 

 terminate in reproduction by ova; finally, it distin- 

 guishes clearly between the phenomena in question 

 and those of metamorphoses, whilst at the same time 

 it preserves the true relations which form a bond of 

 union between the two classes of facts, and which 

 cannot be denied. 



It appears to me now, as it did on other occa- 

 sions, that this doctrine is accurate in its entirety, as 

 well as in its details. 



