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48 HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION OF QUALITIES.
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We While Found Travellin Ourselve G In S...
to In tlieir tlae inclinations first place , or men their and interests women pair and themselves are not selected according and
possible improving matched , b even y the scientific if race desirable , p nor hilanthrop , would in the ists any present , , with other any age arrangement specific ; but in view past be of '
times various laws of a very arbitrary kind were in force bearing exhibition that of way deformity in tendency ; the . Spartans The Theban and Indians s punished decreed any infantsAnd
disci done the p death in line many of of those all well sick times -governed ly ; " or and malformed commonwealths " It were happy , , " according ; say " s Fernelius so to was the ,
Boethius suffered " if only to such if marry parents . man " At as were are one sound visited time of in with bod Scotl y the and an falling d mind , according ' should sickness be to any
to ( i . e perpetual ., epilepsy , chastit ) , madness y , and , gout any woman , or with leprosy afflicted her , brood he was in buried like condemned manner alive ,
and A found to doom be with child will , " was " comments old Bartonwho . " evidentl " severe favours the you idea" say and , not to be used among Chris , -
tians , yet y more to be looked , into limited than to it is . " The results first-named while
lawsit will be observedwere destroy , the the last cause , was There adapted is to no s , trike reason at the to root doub of t the from evil any and thing prevent that
propagation has careful ever selection . appeared of the made human to the and increase species contr judgment of ary , health , as but exercised in , that that , of were as dogs and regards the intellec , horses same the - , and cattlea surprising beauty
tual power , would result , which might in , time progress , , to the be perfect Secondl desired development y . in Supposing point of of the that ideal hysical children type of anization are man born . all beauty that coul and d
intelli convenient gence for ; they them are nor not p are fed they onl trained org y with , taug food ht , , disci which p , lined ; , is ,
bred civil and ization kep young t apart horses there from is are so , . all much And deteriorating , lastl and y , earl in this y influences expenditure age of over as our - of wroug youth high ht
and healthsuch a constant pressure , of , brain work , we live so fast that , fresh and pass types , throug of diseas h so e are much established , in so short among a us spac . Ne e of ural time gia ,
, hypochondria , than atrop formerl hy , and paral and ysis it must are be very borne much in mind more common now y ;
that one of the peculiar and certain attributes of _nervous disease is to vieillir and enlaidir all on whom it preys .
( To ho continued . )
48 Hereditary Transmission Of Qualities.
48 HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION OF QUALITIES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/48/
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