4. “Germinal selection is the last consequence of the application of the principle of Malthus to living nature.”[17]
5. “Without doubt the theory (Germinal Selection) requires that the initial steps of a variation should also have selective value.”[18]
6. “Something is still wanting in the theory of Darwin and Wallace which it is obligatory on us to discover if we possibly can. We must seek to discover why it happens that useful variations are always present.”[19]
7. “It is impossible to do without the assumption that the useful variations are always present, or that they always exist in a sufficiently large number of individuals for the selective process.”[20]
8. “Some profound connexions must exist between the utility of a variation and its actual appearance, or the direction of the variation of a part must be determined by utility.”[21]
9. That “germinal selection performs the same services for the understanding of observed transformations . . . that a heredity of acquired characters would perform without rendering necessary so violent an assumption!”[22] (Italics mine.)
10. Weismann speaks warmly of Professor Lloyd Morgan for his caution and calmness of judgment but complains of him that he “has not been able to abandon completely the heredity of acquired characters.”[23]
11. As to passive effects of environment, etc., he says “the Lamarckian principle is here excluded ab initio.”[24]
12. “It seems to me that a hypothesis of this kind (Lamarckism) has performed its services and must be discarded the moment it is found to be at hopeless variance with the facts.”[25]