Show STYLE WRITING hereditary science wakes up to a fact that the public have long ago realized london non scientific persano have long realized the remarkable fei milar ity in handwriting of members of the same family sometimes las ing for half a dozen generations nd now it seems science is at last waking up to this suggestive tact in heredity sir rickman goodlee president ot the royal college ot surgeon said I 1 have lately been old letters dating back to the barly part of the eighteenth century and I 1 have been struck with the way in which mere handwriting Is handed down from father to son and mother to daughter it is possible to trace quite clearly my great grandfather frand father a writing in that of my cousins and my father s and my own it mere handwriting is thus transmitted together with the tone of the voice and the shape of the nose the question arises whether any one need be ashamed of his detects sorry for his misdeeds proud of bis success or satisfied with the conscious ness of virtue we may feel the long arms ot our apelike ancestors stretching out of the past and molding our characters we may read all that has ever been written about tree will from the time of aristotle and we may hug the notion that our actions have been predestined from the cebu lous state of our planet but it makes no difference to us we are still doggedly convinced that by taking thought we can add one cubit to our stature or at any rate prevent it being one cubit less |