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HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION OF QUALITIES. 95
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¦ ' W ¦ 'I ' I Form In The The Qualities...
and course vi depends health on the size without and quality which the of tlie other brain two ; and must sound of
necessity gorous be transient , in character and fitful in operation . to As amend regards Human the first nature named , in there this is particular perhaps the takes least care room of
. itself countenance beauty , and maketh thoug " so a h dissolute long Bacon as the youth affirms world , and that shal an l for age endure , the a littl most men e out part and of
women will , love to gaze on that which is fair to the , eye , nor need we wish it otherwise . Beautis a joy to those who
possess notfor it it in is their not forbidden own persons even and to y the to those irretrievabl who possess lto it y ugy
admire , it or even to win and appropriate it in the person of others . It has often occurred in the annals of . Royal or ancient
in riages houses appearance , , b that y which after and the a realit succession members ysome have of nam interes incredibl eless ted beauty y and deteriorated loveless , possibl m both y ar of
the differen famil t race and and a country fair , , robust lias been and adop health ted b y y offspring marriage into has J
been the fortunate y , result , . The crossing , of different races has often "been followed by similar effects . Probably some of the
loveliest faces in the world are to be found among the bluewest eyed of black Ireland -haired where men there and has women been in a considerable some districts admixture of the
of the Iberian Celtic , blood . Specimens equally perfect , though remnant differing of in Moorish type , are blood frequent lainl in lingers South . Spain The mixe , where d Eng some lish
and Spanish stock also produces py examples of very perfect beautyand likewise the English and Italianthough of a less
noble type , . That of the English with Greek , is less fortunate ; the men especially , however well they look in in their national
when costume lishmen attired , are in small As our regards , sallow dress the , , and and lineal standing insi transmission gnificant side b of y appearance side beauty with it ,
is Eng popularly . supposed to be most constant from the father , ' s sideother qualities being derived from the mother . A
handlive some , in man the rarely fails of most to have le handsome women of children singular ; but personal there
loveliness memory whose daughters peop present but faded and shadowy likenesses , resembling the mother as water resembles wine .
Certain , outward characteristics or marks are , undeniably , in some families transmitted from generation to generation . An
was Italian hence famil named y bore the Lansada mark . of Plutarch a lance-head speak on s the of a body Theban , and
famil nose , y the with singular a similar brilliant peculiarity eye . , said The Austrian to be hereditary lip , the Bourbon in the
family of the Russian Emperor , the _jjroud and obstinate
Hereditary Transmission Of Qualities. 95
HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION OF QUALITIES . 95
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/23/
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