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By Grant Gilmore

ISBN-10: 030021104X

ISBN-13: 9780300211047

Following its ebook in 1974, furnish Gilmore's compact portrait of the improvement of yankee legislations from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century grew to become a vintage. during this re-creation, the portrait is pointed out up to now with a brand new bankruptcy via Philip Bobbitt that surveys the trajectory of yankee legislation because the unique booklet. Bobbitt additionally presents a Foreword on Gilmore and the distinguished lectures that encouraged The a while of yankee Law.

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Simply natural ” that a bird’s egg should give rise to a bird, and a horse-ovum to a horse, but n o one mould accept the statement as an eqdanation. We have in the natural selection of variations a true ezpZnnatiol8 of the manner in which an unicellular rhizopod lias bceii slowly and gradually modified by an almost iiifini te number of slight clianges, extending through countless millions of generations, into a bird. The clinngc is one of the most monderful of tlie phenomena of nature, but i t is in no sense a mystery, for the skill of the breeder may even now, by the employment of tlie same means, produce similar results, only on a much smaller scale ; by tlie nietliodical selection of congenital variations an organisni may be, in a few gctierntions, sliglitlg modified in atiy desired direction, aiid we can fairly and truly a E r m that we understand tlic evolution of birds from their aniceIlular aiicestors ; biit the resemblance between the evolution of birds from tliesc remote ancestors by natural selection, and tlic derelopnierit of an individid bird from an uniccllulnr ovum, is simply an analogy.

Is plain, too, that in its sccontl form Jager’s hypothesis is one of evolution, pure and simple, Bistory of the Theory of Heredity. -~ 46 for the egg is, at no stage of its growth, unspccialized, : ~ l di t does not require the assimilation of “ soul-stuff ” iii ordcr to devclop into a n organism. We must conclnde, then, that however satisfactory anll :tccordant with obscrved fact t h e hypothesis of epigcncsis seems to be a t first sight, more careful analysis sliows that it is i n no sense a true explanation of the p11en om en o 11 of d eve1opni cn t.

29 opmcnt of each egg into its proper organism, and if i t is true tliat tlie egg which is to give rise to a man differs in no essential point from that wliicli is togive rise to :in insect, mc m iy conclude tliat the mystery is too great to be fnthomcd by oiir intelligence, and we may fairly ask what possi blc explanation can, on this hypothesis, bc given of tlic wondcrful properties of tlic egg. The answer wliicli has been given, and wliicli seetna t o linve been tlionglit satisfactory by many students, is tliis: We know, from a mass of evidence mliicli is constantly and rapidly increasing, and to wliicli each new observation adds cumnlntire weight, tIiat the various forms of life liave been slowly evolved, during long ages, from older and simpler forms; tliat as me trace back tlie history of any two animals or plants we find eridence tliat in tlic past tliey liad for a common ancestor a species mliicli liad iiot yet acquired tlic distinctive fenturcs of either of them; that a little fiirtlier back we trace tliis s p c i e s to :m :tiicestor with still midcr relationships.

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