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taken place under any constitution of the visible universe other than the one which includes this general principle of an antithetic alternation of generations as the basis of the cycle of life of animals and plants. It would have been lacking, were this general principle untrue, had my researches since 1888 been false as well as ” heterodox.” Were direct development or epigenesis, somatic origin of germ-cells, etc., Nature’s method, cancer would not, could not, have been liquefied by injections of pancreatic fer­ments in London, New York, Berlin, and York; no malig­nant tumours at all would have disappeared under the influence of injections of pancreatic ferments; and Lambelle’s ex-pensioned drummer would long ago have perished miserably from the ravages of malignant disease, as countless other cases still do every day, week, and year all over this earth. It follows that the current dogmas of direct development or epigenesis, set up in the eighteenth century by the researches of Harvey and Casper Friedrich Wolff, somatic origin of germ-cells, and recapitulation in development, which are taught in all, or almost all, the Universities of the civilized world, and which are supposed to underlie the sciences of embryology, zoology, and anatomy, not to mention physiology and pathology, etc—that these are false, even though they be” orthodox.” Therefore, the general principle of an antithetic alternation of generations has not only resulted in the overthrow and rout of cancer, but its decisive success in this has demonstrated how necessary it is, in the interests of truth itself, that without further delay—unless scientific truth have ceased to be a requirement of science—the scientific house be put in order, the false dogmas be cast out and rejected as worthless, and the Golden Rule of an antithetic alternation of generations be set up as a fundamental scientific general principle of the sciences of

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