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Show New M In llerrtlitf, Xothlnj Is more flrmly eetAbllh(l ajt-pArrutly ajt-pArrutly than tho prlncl(Ie that like tranimlts lika It is true of animal it Is claimed to be true of the human raoo as wrIL Trotting horses are Improved en an 1 strains of I lood handed down till the gait of the flyers crows foster And faur with oach generation of men. It Is not at all Improbable that In a few , jcars even Maul H't t ainuiis reconl of 3.Hl will bo lowered fuanltnali to the laVtt generation a strain cf partlonUr Llcol Is transmitted front a fomotu au j ceator to nearly every descendant Is this law ULAltarabl In the human race? It Is true ou general principle and In a broalway that children are Ilka their patent that is ta aiy.lt la true to a dejerre. Uat somehow when wo have developed from monkey to the stae&f tmn, If we have ao dovelopvd. new laws aeem to snperveiio, Tho ap-itranceof ap-itranceof tho Intellectual and roaauu Ids jiowera Mem somehow to change things, Hemarkably ban laotno iKtrcnt ' are apt to have very ordinary looking children. Great gtntnurscf eltlnT sex never have children equal to thmn Ivca. It Is as If nature nsed up her powers In the making of a Bhakeiwir, a Uogthe or Mary Homer vl lie, and there was no grratniM left to be lianded down to their children. Tliodcacendantscf tranKend ently great leoplo bare lrcn lu moat cacsiiotat all nbovo mediocrity) often have been Ulow tlutt History goea to prove. Indeed, that the children cf common, middle clans, re-spectAbto re-spectAbto iople are the ones who reach the highest heights. Tho common pco-lle pco-lle are apt to bo the jrrnU of liner children thta the great pnluHS nre. for this reaaon a philosopher dcclarre nature knows her own btulaess when thm aiM the moat gifted Individuals often childlpga. They can irno the or!d batter, says the crank phllotopher, by giving to mankind the benefit of their Intellectual and moral powen And It ting the healthy middle claawe p-opl the earth, ilarvelous Intellectual pow era appear to bo jiontranflmtttabli. |
