Stripped of detail the point at issue is this;--whether luck or cunning is the fitter to be insisted on as the main means of organic development.
Abundant proof has been given that the law of organic development formulated by von Baer, is the law of all development.
But, as already more than once hinted, this principle, understood in the simple form here presented, supplies no key to the detailed phenomena of organic development.
Yet another generalization of like universality expresses the process of organic development.
Jean Lamarck and Wolfgang Goethe stand at the head of all the great philosophers of nature who first established a theory of organic development, and who are the illustrious fellow-workers of Darwin.
No supernatural history of creation can in any way explain to us the great mystery of organic development.
On these grounds the assertion that the theory of selection is not an attempt at a “mechanical” explanation of organic development appears to me to be incorrect.
These views are finally completely justified by their furnishing the only possible theoretical formulation of variability on which a mechanical conception of organic development can be based.
If such a power exists it must be the inciting cause of organic development in general, and must be equally necessary in every part of creation, as no advancement could take place without it.
For it has brought witness to continuity in organic development at the point where a break has been assumed, and driven home the fact that if Evolution operates anywhere, it operates everywhere.
Nor does he make any exception to this law of organic development.
Thus, when we are attempting to grasp the fundamental nature of the course of organic development, we must not omit the part played by these factors.
But my theory does not pretend to explain all the many problems involved in the course of organic development.
We have yet to advert to the most interesting class of facts connected with the laws of organic development.
To this conclusion it must be greatly conducive that the law of organic development is still daily seen at work to certain effects, only somewhat short of a transition from species to species.
This important causal nexus finds its simplest expression in "the fundamental law of organic development," the content and purport of which we have fully considered in the first chapter.
The more we go into the details of organic development, and the more closely we follow the rise of the various parts, the more we see the inseparable connection of embryology and stem-history.
This is one of those fatal mis-growths that show the great part that blind chance has in organic development.
According to that theory, organic development is due to the survival of the fittest among innumerable variations, good, bad, and indifferent, from one or more parent stocks.
That these gains or losses of organic development, due to use or disuse, are transmitted to offspring, provided they have been common to both sexes, or to the animals from which the offspring have descended.
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