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Mendel Journal 



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No. 1 October 1909 



PROLOGUE. 



Mendelism is a subject which has come to stay and 

 to play an important part in human affairs. In 

 Agriculture, in Horticulture, in the Prize Pens, and 

 in Sociology, its voice will be heard. It will not be 

 as a voice in the desert, but as a world-vibratory 

 one, uttering its pronouncements, admonitions, and 

 definitive conclusions, based on the solid and unshake- 

 able ground of accurate experiment, wherever culture 

 and life come into contact. 



A subject like Mendelism, full of complexities, and 

 liable to be misunderstood by the careless, the hasty, 

 and the unwary, necessarily runs many dangers 

 among the shoals of human affairs. There are the dilet- 

 tante philanthropists and scientists, and social refor- 

 mers ; and there are newspaper writers possibly 

 seeking to ingratiate themselves with their numerous 

 readers, by assuming the garb of " gods who destroy 

 false idols," which they themselves first set up. Not 

 Mendelism, nor its progress, but the application of it 

 to human affairs, is endangered by them. 



A great subject like this,- one with not only an 

 academic importance, but clearly of great practical 

 importance also, and having a bearing upon some of 

 the greatest phases of human activities, so far as 



