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Logic II 29

even in the oldest Latin it very seldom bears that meaning.
There is, however, a certain sub-conscious [reminiscence?]
memory of that meaning in many phrases; just as in
with words from φύσις, there is the idea of [?????]
springing forth, or a more vegetable-like production,
without so much reference to a progenitor. Things it may be,
[φύεται?], spontaeously; but nature is an inheritance.
Heredity, of which so much has been said since 1860,
is not a force but a law, although, like other laws,
it doubtless avails itself of forces. But it is essential
that the offspring shall have a general resemblance to
the parent, not that this general resemblance happens
to result from this or that blind [follow?] and particular
action. No doubt, there is some blind efficient causation,
but it is not that which constitutes the heredity, but, on
the contrary, the general resemblance. So, then, those
naturalists are right who hold that the action of evolution

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