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She attributes to me certain "assumptions of a very 

 remarkable nature as to the unit qualities of the 

 mental world." I at once disclaim having made 

 anywhere in my article a single assumption as to 

 the nature of mental unit-characters. Nowhere in 

 Miss Wodehouse's article can I find the least reference 

 to any specific case, which in fairness she should 

 have quoted, word for word. That they exist and 

 will be one day formulated, I have little doubt. I will 

 presently give some tentative evidence suggesting that 

 such unit-characters may exist. But if my present 

 readers will read again pages 57-59 of the article on 

 " Virile Sentiment," they will be able to see what I 

 actually said in the matter. In a few words, the 

 substance of my remarks may be thus summarised : 

 It was contended that in regard to some of the 

 qualities of man, the evidence is pretty clear that 

 there is segregation in their hereditary transmission 

 from one generation to another ; that there was no 

 reason to believe that the mental and moral qualities 

 of man are transmitted in any way different from 

 the physical qualities. As examples of the trans- 

 mission of mental qualities, I cited the historical 

 cases of the eloquence of Marcus Antonious and of 

 the high statesmanlike qualities that were known 

 for many generations to descend in the family of 

 Brutus. Since then I have been working at human 

 pedigrees, and it seems clear, that whatever may be 

 the nature and the number of the unit-characters, 

 if any, involved in such qualities, that the mathe- 

 matical faculty and inventive genius are hereditarily 



