| From zoology has arisen the study of transformism, which now dominates the whole of biology. |
| If it is based only on the pure theory of transformism, there is nothing explained at all. |
| In no case can true variations claim to be of great importance in problems of transformism. |
| It is a claim of this article that this vitalization of matter was central to the emergence of genuine species transformism. |
| That is the Darwinian part of an explanation of transformism which may be conceded as an hypothesis. |
| It does not enter into our plan to set down here the proofs of transformism. |
