Excerpt from An Examination of Weismannism I have decided upon the latter course, because in this way we are most likely to obtain a clear view of the growth of Weismann's elaborate structure of theories - a view which it is almost necessary, for the purposes of criticism, that we should obtain. Having decided upon this point, it occurred to me that certain advantages would be gained by removing the whole criticism from the position which it was originally intended to Occupy as a section of my forthcoming volume on the ...
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Excerpt from An Examination of Weismannism I have decided upon the latter course, because in this way we are most likely to obtain a clear view of the growth of Weismann's elaborate structure of theories - a view which it is almost necessary, for the purposes of criticism, that we should obtain. Having decided upon this point, it occurred to me that certain advantages would be gained by removing the whole criticism from the position which it was originally intended to Occupy as a section of my forthcoming volume on the post-darwinian period. For, in consequence of the criticism having been written at successive intervals during the last six or eight years as Professor Weismann's works succes sively appeared, it has now swelled to a bulk which would unduly encumber the volume just mentioned. Again, the growth of Professor Weismann's system has of late become so rapid, that if the criticism is to keep pace with it in future, the best plan will doubtless be the one which it is now my intention to adopt - via, to publish the criticism in a separate form, and in comparatively small editions, so that further chapters may be added with as much celerity as Professor Weismann may hereafter pro duce his successive works. Lastly, where so much elaborate speculation and so many changes of doctrine are concerned, it is inevitable that some misunder standings on the part of a critic are likely to have arisen; and therefore, should Professor Weismann deem it worth his while to correct any such failings on my part, the plan of publication just alluded towill furnish me with the best Opportunity of dealing with whatever he may have to say. It must be understood, however, that under the' term Weismannism I do not include any reference to the important question with which the name of Weismann has been mainly associated - Le the inheritance or non-inheritance of acquired characters. This is a question of fact, which stands to be an swered by the inductive methods of observation and experiment: not by the deductive methods of general reasoning. Of course Professor Weismann is fully entitled to assume a negative answer as a basis whereon to construct his theory of the continuity of germ-plasm but no amount of speculation as to what the mechanism of heredity is likely to be if once this assumption is granted, can even so much as tend to prove that the assumption itself is true Therefore, in this examination of Weismannism I intend to restrict our attention to the elaborate system of theories which Weismann has reared Upon his funda mental postulate of the non-inheritance of acquired characters, reserving for my next volume our con sideration of this postulate itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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