1 889.] On Inheritance in Evohition. 1065 
The building energy being thus understood to he a mode of 
molecular motion, we are not at libcrt\- \o .sui)pose that its ex- 
istence is dependent on the dimensions of the organic body wJn"ch 
exhibits it. It is as characteristic of the organic unit or plastidule 
as the mode of motion which builds the crystal is of the simplest 
molecular aggregate from which the crystal arises. Bathmism 
has however no other resemblance to crystalloid cohesion. The 
latter is a simple energy which acts within geometrically related 
spaces, w^ithout regard to anything else but the present compul- 
sion of superior weight energy. In bathmism we see the result- 
ant of innumerable antecedent influeiices, which builds an or- 
ganism constructed for adaptations to the varied and irregularly 
occurring condngencies which characterize the life of living be- 
ings. As this resultant is distinctive for every species, Bathmism 
must be regarded as a generic term, and the characteristic growth- 
energy of each species as distinct species of energy, which pre- 
sents also diversities expressive of the peculiarities of individuals. 
If the doctrine of kinetogenesis be true, this energy has been 
been moulded by the interaction of the living being and its en- 
vironment. It is the expression of the habitual movements of the 
organism which have become impressed on the reproductive 
elements. It is evident that these and the other organic units of 
which the organism is composed possess a memory which de- 
termines their destiny in the building of the embr>'o. This is in- 
dicated by the recapitulation of the phylogenetic history of its 
ancestors displa>'ed in embryonic growth. This memory has per- 
haps the same molecular basis as the conscious memoiy, but for 
reasons unknown to us, consciousness does not preside over its 
activities. The energy whicli follo\\s its guidance has become 
automatic, and it builds what it builds with the same regardless- 
ness of immediate surroundings as that which is displayed by the 
crystallific growth energy. It is incapable of a new design. 
Consciousness is necessary for the origin of a design, since de- 
sign cannot come into being without sensation and conscious 
memoiy. Hence we are lead to suppose that the designed handi- 
work displayed by bathmism had its origin in conscious states, 
and under the influence of the effort of the organism to adapt itself 
