"Evolution, Old and New," are all that I yet know of in other writers
as pointing to the conclusion that the phenomena of heredity are
phenomena also of memory.



CHAPTER VI



Professor Ewald Hering "On Memory."

I will now lay before the reader a translation of Professor Hering's
own words. I have had it carefully revised throughout by a gentleman
whose native language is German, but who has resided in England for
many years past. The original lecture is entitled "On Memory as a
Universal Function of Organised Matter," and was delivered at the
anniversary meeting of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna,
May 30, 1870. {63} It is as follows:-

"When the student of Nature quits the narrow workshop of his own
particular inquiry, and sets out upon an excursion into the vast
kingdom of philosophical investigation, he does so, doubtless, in the
hope of finding the answer to that great riddle, to the solution of a
small part of which he devotes his life. Those, however, whom he
leaves behind him still working at their own special branch of
inquiry, regard his departure with secret misgivings on his behalf,
while the born citizens of the kingdom of speculation among whom he
would naturalise himself, receive him with well-authorised distrust.
He is likely, therefore, to lose ground with the first, while not