ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces properly to place the actual significance of our specific topic, germinal constitution. It focuses on adult individuals in constitutional clinics it is impossible to imagine how we are to work back for the analysis of the fundamental principles of personality. The chapter also introduces the germ as a cell and shall undertake to consider the possibilities of influencing it as such, and of further analyzing its inner nature and structural constitution. The germ cells of mother Eve according to their calculations must have contained 200,000 million human germs. It was from the atmosphere of cellular investigation that the eminent German zoologist, Weismann, crystallized his conception of the continuity and purity of the germ plasm. Each new fact seemed to emphasize the independence of the germinal constitution and investigators began to think of variations and new qualities in the individual as being derived only in a centrifugal way from their centers of origin in the germ.
