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158 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
It is not in my power to solve the questions respect
ing the portions of the mental and physical organization,
contributed by either parent. I see no reason to be
lieve in any such partition. I think each has a share in
the formation of every part, though in any part the in
fluence of one or the other may preponderate. A
child may resemble either of its parents, or both. It
may have the mind of one, and the physical constitution
of the other, or both may be mingled. If a man have
a powerfully-developed and active, but not exhausted
mind, and a woman a vigorous organic system, it is
likely that their child will resemble each in their strong
est points. Germ cell and sperm cell, I fully believe,
are both engaged in the formation of every faculty and
organ.
Fig. 40. These are magnified from nine hundred
to one thousand diameters, a. Spcrma*
tozoon presenting the flat surface, b. One
viewed in profile, c. Showing a circular
spot on the surface, which some suppose
Ji
I to be a sucker, d. Shows an elongation
». / from the head, like a proboscis, e. Gran-
M / ules, or cells, in which other zoospcrms
I /are preparing.
\j/ The sperm cell is the result
X of the action of that complex or-
the testicle— an organ com-
v \. gan,
^ posed of a vast surface of tubular
| structure, and amply supplied
with nerve and blood, by which,
and out of which, these animate
cells are formed. Then, within
human speematozoa. the primitive sperm cell, appear
a number of smaller cells, and within these are found,