if the varying individual did not actually transmit to its offspring its newly-acquired character?

Does "if the varying individual did not actually transmit to its offspring its newly-acquired character, it would undoubtedly transmit to them, as
long as the existing conditions remained the same" mean " if the varying individual did not actually transmit to its offspring its newly-acquired character (in the past), it would undoubtedly eventually transmit to them, as long as the existing conditions remained the same"?


Context:

It should not, however, be overlooked that certain rather strongly
marked variations, which no one would rank as mere individual
differences, frequently recur owing to a similar organisation being
similarly acted on-- of which fact numerous instances could be
given with our domestic productions. In such cases, if the varying
individual did not actually transmit to its offspring its newly-
acquired character, it would undoubtedly transmit to them, as
long as the existing conditions remained the same, a still stronger
tendency to vary in the same manner. There can also be little