Es ist jedoch nicht einzusehen, warum das blosse Versetzen in den Gartengrund eine so durchgreifende und nachhaltige Revolution im Pflanzen-Organismus zur Folge haben müsse.
It is not understandable, however, why the simple transfer of plants to a garden plot should result in such a thorough and sustained revolution in the plant organism.
revolution in the plant organism = Revolution im Pflanzen-Organismus Both Revolution “revolution” and Organismus (“organism”) were politically highly loaded terms in Mendel’s time, with the state often being compared with an organism. Like Darwin, Mendel seems to be highly sceptical of any theories that presume spontaneous transmutations, and opts for continuity in nature (and culture) instead. On this complex issue, that we cannot explore here, see Sander Gliboff, “Evolution, Revolution, and Reform in Vienna: Franz Unger’s Ideas on Descent and Their Post-1848 Reception”, Journal of the History of Biology 31 (1998), pp. 179–209.