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Excerpt from Heredity, Evolution, and Vitalism: Some of the Discoveries of Modern Research Into These Matters Their Trend and Significance
The laws of heredity and evolution have made the world of life what it now is, and determine what it may yet be. Of recent years we have learned to understand these laws better, and our knowledge of them has become both of deep theoretic interest, and of great practical importance.
The author accordingly believes that all thoughtful men should have some knowledge of the latest researches of science in these fields, and some acquaintance with the various problems they solve or suggest, and he has endeavoured in the following pages to give a fair summary of what we now know concerning embryonic growth, parental inheritance, and evolutionary change. His endeavour has been to expound scientific facts, and also to indicate certain novel conclusions to which they seem to lead - conclusions which so far appear to have escaped notice, and which are nevertheless of the greatest philosophic and theologic importance.
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