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96 HEREDITARY TBANSMISSION OP QUALITIES.
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fam bearin iliar g of to us the all ; redhanded but conversel house y the of Hapsburg same thing _, " are occurs instances in the
whose littl similar opposite e finger sons manner direction inherited had . b , Blumenbach y and the accident defect physical . been cites This defects crushed an was exam probabl are p and le transmitte of y distorted a owing man d ' whose to , in and the a
mity law of and association the impression of ideas , of by it which on the the mother knowled 's ge mind of the broug defor ht
about this result on her offspring-. It is at this point that the conditions of the of human and animal life hitherto
running as it were , economy in parallel lines , begin to diverge one from the , otherand continue to do so in an increasing degreeas on the
one side , keeping within the limits of animal physiology , , and g presenting ical princi no ples problems ; and . on but the such other as hand are exp , rising licable into horse on the ph is ysiolo hi born gher
with and more some comp organic lex domain defect , the of Psychology chances are . at If least a equal that its foal will have the sameor a tendency to the same ; weak
easil lungs , deficient h transmitted eye-sight , as ill , -formed breeder unsound can feet testif are defects but if every y ;
the animal y enoug becomesby some , accident , permanently maimed , foal loses to an be eye minus , a leg , or , leg a or tail tail , there and is such no horses reason are to in expect practice the
with frequentl human y and beings successfull eye , where , y a used defect , for is breeding visible and purposes congenital . But ,
the chances of the child , being * imperfect are two to one , because , the laws of transmission and of association of ideas both act
in the same direction . With reference to intellect , considered as a matter of hereditary ldeclar
that descent the , most intellectual people when is asked derived will from unhesitating the mother y that e all clever men have stu power id sonsand all remarkabl , e men talented ;
mothersand they will p count , up a really formidable list of names in , proof thereof , beginning perhaps at Napoleon or
Oliver Cromwell and leading * up to Solomon . Nor will they find it difficult to remember an equal number of women
birth distinguished to illustrious for their men . mental But if attainments you enquire , who further have to g what iven
of that granting they it , they it attribute always its are existence unable these has been to facts , in say what — so more how and way than they always they th conceive at exp will it lain is . so of the because It the is op law eration an it , is ill or ,
where compliment the mental to pay capacity to the male of the sex father to suppose is known that to precisel be of y a
in powerful transmitting and distinguished itself , or that kind the , qu it alities should of most the smaller signall - y sized fail
brain must uniformly become the heritage of the children .
96 Hereditary Tbansmission Op Qualities.
96 HEREDITARY TBANSMISSION OP QUALITIES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/24/
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