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But this perpetuality, brother, as Knies said, of the immutability of the old zoology, did not long hold out against the ever swelling tide of the historical movement.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

But this perpetuality, brother, as Knies said, of the immutability of the old zoology, did not long hold out against the ever-swelling tide of the historical movement.

From Evolution in Modern Thought by Weismann, August