Biological Iconociasm, 

 Mendelian Inheritance and Human Society 



A PLEA FOR THE OPERATION OF A MORE 

 VIRILE SENTIMENT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS. 



A Criticism 

 By Miss H. M. WODEHOUSE. 



(Lecturer in Philosophy in the University of Birmingham. 



Being myself the most unskilled of amateurs in 

 natural science, I am filled with the deepest respect 

 for those whose professional studies lie in this 

 department ; and I accept with an undoubting faith 

 everything that these experts tell me of the objects 

 which their studies bring before them. Only when 

 a scientific expert crosses the line into my own 

 department of " mental and moral " science does 

 this paralysing reverence relax its hold. It is this 

 overlapf)ing of subjects which gives me courage to 

 offer a few tentative comments on an interesting 

 paper, by Mr. G. P. Mudge, in The Mendel Journal 

 for October, 1909, " A Plea for the Operation of a 

 more Virile Sentiment in Human Affairs." 



The part of the paper which concerns me may 

 be summed up as follows, probably in unscientific 

 language, but I hope not unfairly. " The unit 

 qualities which make an individual valuable or 



