58/85 There is no more confusion of germs, or embryos, than of plants or animals. No instance has ever been known of a germ producing an animal, or plant, of another species, by any process of stopping short of ripening, or undue prolongation of it. Every seed breeds true to its kind, or not at all, or produces a deformity. Embryology utterly refuses the notion of the transmutation of species. He tries to account for them and fails; acknowledging ignorance of the laws of heredity. |