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Insanity and agamogenesis

I never knew more than one individual who believed in agamogenesis; she was unmarried, a lovely charac- ter, was suffering from incipient insanity, and a Christian Scientist cured her. I have named her case to individuals, when casting my bread upon the waters, and it may have caused the good to ponder and the evil to hatch their silly innuendoes and lies, since salutary causes sometimes incur these effects. The per- petuation of the floral species by bud or cell-division is evident, but I discredit the belief that agamogenesis applies to the human species.