ABSTRACT
Dr. Schmidt-Jena claimed to have proved in a little work published some years ago, that the biogenetic principle was applicable to the development of every individual, precisely because it keeps in view both heredity and adaptation. The third point to which the speaker referred was the biogenetic principle. He said that Father Wasmann had stated this law the fundamental law of organic evolution as Haeckel called it, in the following way: 'Ontogenesis, or the evolution of the individual, is the repetition in brief of the phylogenesis, or the evolution of the race. Father Wasmann laid stress upon theism, and made it the foundation of the doctrine of evolution and of all other sciences, whereas to a monist the monistic philosophy of nature was a deduction from the doctrine of evolution, at which a scientist could arrive. The reader is invited to compare the remarks in my closing address on the subject of this biogenetic principle.
