Capitolo 21
place of takings. We ask, as you can an only cell reproduces the whole body
of the descendant, his/her mind, character and all the particularities of a
organism? Out of the myriads of cells of which a body is composed,
what kind of cell is that that it possesses the power to reproduce the
the particularities, mental and physical which will be found in the
form of the new-been born child? This is the most puzzling of all the
problems that you/he/she has ever met the scientific mind. The
connected fundamental question with the theory of the heredity is: As
an alone cell of the body contains inside him all the hereditary
tendencies of the hypothesis of the continuity of the germ-plasma damage
a beginning-stings identical to every following generation, and this way
he/she explains as it is that an identical product rises from everybody of
them. In the other words, the hypothesis explains the heredity as part of the
fundamental problems of the assimilation and the causes that act
directly during ontogeny. (Vol. ME, P. 170.)
According to Weismann, all the particularities in which we find a
organism is not inherited by the organism by that of his/her/their parents,
but he says: "Nothing can rise in an organism unless the
predisposition to him is pre-existing, for every acquired character it is
simply the reaction of the organism on a certain stimulus." (Vol. ME,
p. 172.) Therefore the germ-cells don't inherit all the particularities
of his/her/their parents, but it possesses the predisposition or a potentiality of
the tendencies that are gradually developed in individual characters.
We will be able to understand better his/her theory from the following
quotations that give his/her his/her own words. He says: "I have called this
substance 'the germ-plasma', and you/he/she has supposed that possesses an extremely
complex structure, conferring on him the power to develop in a
complex organism." ("The heredity", Vol. ME, P. 170.) Again he says:
"There is, therefore, the continuity of the germ-plasma from a generation