This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill THE BIOLOGIC BASIS Family life must have first of all a sound basis in heredity. A man should be very careful, as Heine warns us, in the selection of his parents. Sir Thomas Browne in stately seventeenth century language contrasted heredity and environment to the disparagement of the latter in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill THE BIOLOGIC BASIS Family life must have first of all a sound basis in heredity. A man should be very careful, as Heine warns us, in the selection of his parents. Sir Thomas Browne in stately seventeenth century language contrasted heredity and environment to the disparagement of the latter in the exhortation i1 Bless not thyself that thou wert born in Athens; but among thy multiplied acknowledgments, lift up one hand to heaven that thou wert born of honest parents, that modesty, humility and veracity lay in the same egg, and came into the world with thee. This fact of heredity is one of which social workers must take account. Like begets like, or, more accurately stated, Like tends to beget like. Blood will tell. You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear. Some children are bom good just as some are born strong. The education of a child should begin with its grandparents. These proverbs and others of like import have undoubtedly a solid basis in observation and experience. If the reader will more closely scrutinize these sayings, all of which seem to be of the same general import, he will notice that the last in regard to the education of grandparents has a slightly different implication from the others, and on this slight difference a great deal of the current discussion about heredity depends. In saying that we should derive advantage from the education of our grandparents, it is obviously assumed that they will transmit the results of that education to their children, who, as our parents, will again transmit those results, further enhanced by their own education, to us. This is the theory of Lamarck, but it is opposed to the more widely accepted current theory of heredity associated with the name of Weissmann, that acquired...
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