| Show INSTINCT AND HEREDITY the auditorium of the me tabernacle was well filled sunday by a quarter alter after eight tabt oPo look the time appointed for dr 0 stanley hall halle lecture oo on heredity and the lecturer was introduced by president ban benjamin cluff as one of the loading leading educators educator of the united states and add president of the clark university he has just bat completed a course of lectures lectured before the abe students etu denta of the B Y academy ummer summer school on subjects draws drabo from the study of biology as related to education dr hall began his hie lecture by an ac knowledge of gratitude for the many courtesies courte elea extended to him since coming to utah the insight be had gained to the be character boci soci docial a bouat ma religion and philosophy of 0 the latter day saints sainte bad been a revelation that had bad surprised and delighted hur while the boldness bold ceBa ol of thought which he be bad come in con tact with during one week weeke 98 summer eummer school in provo bad thrown wonderful light upon many of the perplexing questions tlona of science ecie ace dr hall hail to la a very oni engaging speaker his hie voice is ie not loud out but remarkably well modula modulated teo and hla his articulation in so distinct that he be made bamsel board beard with ease eafe in every part of the h tabernacle pur fur one hour he be held hla audience with an attention that betoken eu ou unusual interest the lol fol lowing is a resume of abe ideas ideal be set forth but given in the language of e the reporter should a student science be asked to name one thing more than another in which mechanism has contributed to the enlargement of our mental horizon he would undoubtedly key the invention and of toe microscope tula little t ban baa mods ade possible pos aible the develop development of hallade seu eci encee without it we bould lave known absolutely nothing about it has baa enabled us ua to begin our investigations with the beginning of abe phenomenon of 0 lilt lift at least the beginning begin nida which w aich is the individual cell growing to a certain it must most choose between death and division div lilon into two or more parts parr each of which complete in it self belr mut must again gan divide until the most moat complex and highly organized body in the the brain of man for in stance lance is composed comp oBed of million ot of ucb such cello ad ld the body of fourteen billions calil chien sufficiently illus the miracle of the abe unfolding ot of life alfr for it to 1 a miracle the most moat ous OUR miracle that can engage the mind of mal abis tei let dency to push on and ana up till what wits a were mere nucleus of 01 lite life beaches a man A curious fact act Is that shot this life from the time lime of its if conception and during the period p 61 had of 01 gestation geat atlon recapitulates the biological of lile life on this planet but with intense rap rapidity laity what corresponds to the evo evolution ution 01 a hiu sand and years yean being behig passed in a day an hour even a single second could the trained scientist watch tbt he ha would be able to ell at aab each stage what form of lire wae being unfolded till at jost jat be would exclaim bipeds man cau leis it li to ID the trana minion of the single cell of conception that we have a physical basis for heredity the old belief was that all traits ot of the father and mother were transmitted to the offspring but modern investigation does not rully fully justify notify the conclusion heredity has baa to limitations for in stance chinese chil ran congh ue to be born with normal feets feet lu in spite of the national custom during thousands thou sande oi 01 years yeara of cramping and deforming them lambs lambe are born with long tails from generations of ancestors whose tails have been cropped there I 1 la however a modicum of truth in the oll ol 4 l claim the traits are now known to be those which have parsed out of 0 noxiousness into the realm of pure habit or instinct in psychological term we transmit what has hae been committed to the spinal cord or automatic autu matlo bentres of activity to illustrate A man whose spinal cord had bad been absolutely severed revered from the brain was observed tj stroke hie bie moustache an action not under such euch choum stan eta noen cem we consider aider it purely automatic or instinctive if automatic it must have passed out of nebb a since he be oame came to have a losard beard li ii lc it was waa the oi 01 some ancestral ance etral trait at any rate the illustration auff icee be would be able to transmit this thia to his hie offspring this ability to transmit the likeness liken eee of parent began with the lowest forms forma of lire life the of chion the coral builders bul are examples exam they illustrate what might be called 0 kind of immortality each cell divides and by fissure increasing in geometrical ratio anti the life prin oadle growing wider and higher and leaving the dead forms behind the living forms forma at the ouge of any coral growth may thus thue be said bald to be as an old as ae the life jile history of the planet this thia principle of transmission does not differ essentially even in the higher forms of life the only distinction belog being that irstead instead of the whole organ hm being reproductive this characteristic is coi fined to a single eingle bartall par tall other parts having lost the power A remnant of this power is in seen in the tb ability of the body to heal a scratch or a wound y but this thim power does not extend to the growing of a limb nor to the reproduction by more mere division as in ID lower forms of 01 a complete duplicate of itself death scientifically mined defined I 1 is therefore restricted reproduction those parts which have lost the power to 49 reproduce might be called ments or b bi 1 products of the life principle they live jive on by reason ol of assoil aaion with the vital or cartr but death Is there and the me day comes when the lite life principle transfer transfers itself to other abodes and the old habitations become li feltes sholie just as aa truly as the outgrown houses of the coral polyp lite to Is therefore seen to have a physical immortality to be a coi ainu ous oua chain of being whether look looked ad at ai from the standpoint stand paint of the lower sol ael mats male or of human and the abe con to Is not of vibration alone as was onoe supposed but of actual mat ter from careful solo otino co luper 1 son we are led to the discovery of the law lair that thai this lire life principle augere in any individual only long enough to insure its if owis ova perpetuity the time varying from a second or two to in some eeme to two hundred years yean la JA the elephant the length of life its 1 thus found to be inversely inver eely according to the number and irl Iri quency of the off offspring length of life bears also ft definite relation to the length of the period of gestation and it Is IB not bot the same lame in avary species epe olea what then are the moral bocolo alone we draw from these factor aboy are directly opposed to selfish noes nees every man is the conne oUng link between the past sino ana the he has baa two parente jour four 1114 eight great grandl arents sixteen great great grandparental and anc that going back 1000 years yeara it may be shown that he has hae thou ty millions or of ancestors whose who 6 livee live by heredity are merged alato his own he to is partly lot let us not say eay wholly what they have been in the future ft similar relationship remains to ba b worked out he will transmit his to two or more olvil dren let us ue say four eight great granach grand ch lid re n etc to so go that in a thousand years hl his at a conservative estimate will bw b twenty millions will they b be 0 b otter better for or his having been their father a momentous question we are the bearers of the torch ifft life what are we doing to keep W tt brightly burning are we it ere its if time by burning it at bouk encie la Is it fila flickering and h it ft become uncertain in our handt hand it so the whole world must suffer tw our BID ato and Deale deflect ne elect ct tt aba moral of such euch reflections to Is that the individual is nochim nothing the race we have bave HO right to steal indulgence indulge noe bat which to ia utes necessary seary to abe glori oua one fruit lou ot of the race love jove li is therefore the great law lair ot life the supreme law jaw of existence ice s and a time cornea comes when love jove iu in the human race tit jt Is ig a time bhea the selfish of prehistoric ceases to operate to lo the abild and ha altruism of a higher life ille the youth when the cravi iaRi nigg of she taft way to the impure ut ul the race this Is the period of adolescence uke most moat epoch in the me lite lire of ulm ni the period when there is in a breaking wp up ot of toe the merely animals animal and the infusion the lo saturatIon of the alvine this la the time when the bet betterment ter ot of the race heritage is IB made a period so 0 o rich in opportunity as aa to aBton seton lak the be imagination a throwing open opa of the avenues 10 lo tr ats boat lor for race oranges cb ob anges these avanee win agair upon whatever tea aso been adael to the he Iii individual me be it A good or bad anil it will be to 10 the next gener generation atlon W what abst an opportunity to ig here giam to him who will fulfill the duties dud he owes 90 u mankind how paltry la ilk comparison comp arieon are the plea urea which gratify the individual aft too cue expense of 01 the ram racia I 1 adolescence covers a period of t tola 0 bearc in our own country it begh bea with puberty and continues continue the longer it jos IB the brool gi the she opportunity tor for advancement the traver me dangers of abuse in savage rams youth to la passed in two or throe three yr years women dear bear children at 13 or 14 and are old and wrinkled at 80 of adolescence is also alao due to blood unmixed races like jibe the jews jewe and germa a hasten through abole benoe doe tile the period of change ana bettj into race habits and but in america where blood to ie much mixed adolescence JB is prolonged and the ferment forment of at youth the be ability to be by the principles to in continued long into adal adult 11 life in ID thie ibis fact fles the great grant hope of the che to lu tore of our race comm a scientist nap bar b by y the comparison of hundreds bun dreda of thou ends anda ot of case proved that the best beat time to bear children JB is for or the women 26 25 to 10 35 years of age mind tut for toe the man 30 t to 40 Ob children ildren buro bora loo loop before that time are not likely to the oil full maturity ot at their powers Qu children Ildren born bora long after that time hotle ile not in danger are likely to produce immature im maiure malure offspring race face changes are likely to emar on the male side of the house surprise us continually by their innovations by their beir development of the remote and unlike eadom ebow gaps gap between what abey are sao aau what their parents were 1 jaw of latency I 1 la noted but 1 explained by science it iss ie 18 1 abe breaking breH Blag out oui of tin i eceles which immediately become fantora in civilization all great reat geo gen alisee illustrate tills int law by meant erlie forces they set et go co influence the life of the logo laff hey bey foe bat after all accidents arid bd all artificial agencies age nolea have had lae science cornea comes to af te cono conclusion lusion au an ounce of good I 1 heredity is worth a ton of education i so aa far sg aa race betterment la 18 concerned provided that lost by education WO we mea arba rb is easily meant more mere la intellectual telloo power or olever BeM but bat the education which traca the of the moral life hie billeb makes right living a babat habitable habitt this ble toll smile for good tilis la Is to in short abort the material of which heredity to ii made to ft plain therefore it Is Is first of all to the be lile life which la Is confided t ti as aa no greater menace to our civi civilize liza tion can be found wall toan in those ton ten which tamper with the foun of r life also alaa lor for the abe feeling which b jaad come to marriage as a doubtful bloo lilli I 1 it IS if next our duty to transmit toe ithe stream of life purer and boiler bailer than we received it all the that purity purify siad and enable are up in the word love only when guided by this power do we know that bat we are working in conson since with abe author of our being I 1 he pitt Teth best who loveth best all wage values both great and small for the great god jobeth us u be mad and andIO loveth Yeth all after a life devoted to of tendencies olee that affect abe be future well wen being of the race I 1 am glad fad to say eay that li 19 spite of the tee oark cark agmes pate here and od there I 1 am no pesel mist my hope of the future places me ne la in the so abo 9 light t of a cheerful optima sam ib too the world to growing better |
