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UNTIL lately I supposed, with most biologists, that the phenomena of heredity and variation were facts which we were quite unable to explain. But having had occasion to study the subject once more, I have found in Prof. Hering's1 address on “Memory as a General Function of Organised Matter,” delivered to the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna on May 30, 1870, the germ of a theory which simplifies everything, and throws quite a new light on the problem of variation. In fact, when carried to its full extent, it reduces our difficulties almost to the ever-lasting mystery of the nature and mode of action of mind, a mystery which can never be solved.
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HUTTON, F. Hering's Theory of Heredity, and its Consequences. Nature 69, 366–369 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069366b0
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