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Hence present day systematizing is being more and more discarded, and the said categories as indeed also the lesser groups of forms must be of polyphyletic origin, that is, they must have descended from different primitive stocks. It may be asked: What bearing has this principle of multiple origins?
"The facts, sir, are these: I am the unfortunate possessor of a safe here, in which, a few months ago, I deposited among less important matter sixty bearer bonds of the Japanese Imperial Loan the bulk of my small fortune and the manuscript of an important projected work on 'Polyphyletic Bridal Customs among the mid-Pleistocene Cave Men. Today I came to detach the coupons which fall due on the fifteenth; to pay them into my bank a week in advance, in accordance with my custom.
I have elsewhere endeavoured to point out all that is involved in this assumption, which, it must be confessed, is a very large mouthful to swallow. Let us now consider what the polyphyletic hypothesis involves.
If one seriously considers the matter it is so it seems to me utterly impossible to subscribe to the accidental theory of which the immanent god the blind god of Bergson is a mere variant. But what are we to say with regard to the series of repeated accidents which the polyphyletic hypothesis would seem to demand?
He leaves us to choose between monophyletic and polyphyletic evolution, but himself inclines towards the latter, associating with it a rehabilitation of Wigand’s theory of the primitive cells. But evolution does not go on ad libitum or ad infinitum, for the capacity for differentiation and transformation gradually diminishes.
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