Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c21.7

c21.7

(1) All the members of the human organism are formed at the same time, but are extremely small, as the first sprig of the bamboo contains the leaves, etc., of the future plant.⁷⁹ This idea of the development of the fertilized ovum by "palingenesis" survived in India after a long struggle with rival theories. It is an established truth to-day that though we find cells of one type in glands, of another type in the brain, of another type in the blood, and so forth, nevertheless all of them sprang from one original single cell.⁶⁷