Note 34 — Chapter II · ORIGIN AND LANDSCAPE (B) THE GROUP OF THE HIGHER CULTURES
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
The first proof that the basic forms of plants and animals did not evolve, but were suddenly there, was given by H. de Vries in his Mutation Theory (1886). In the language of Goethe, we see how the “impressed form” [See Vol. I, p. 157.—Tr.] works itself out in the individual samples, but not how the die was cut for the whole genus.