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speech to mere unconscious imitation, otherwise the 

 other sister should have manifested it. The resem- 

 blance in the intonation was so close that had I not 

 known it to be a gentleman before me, I should 

 certainly have thought it was the lady. 



Miss Wodehouse says " that a great part of the 

 social value of a man depends not on anything that 

 we can believe to be simple qualities, but on com- 

 binations of these." This is precisely what I en- 

 deavoured to say in my article when I wrote :* 

 " An organism does not manifest a single quality 

 alone, but is made up of a complex combination of 

 many qualities. Some of these qualities, be they 

 structural or psychical, are themselves not simple, 

 but complex. Some of them are independent of 

 others in the hereditary transmission, but others 

 are correlated and always go together. . . . 

 These facts render all questions of social interest 

 extremely difficult to consider, and are the best justi- 

 fication for the laisser faire attitude." Because 

 matters are so complex, does Miss Wodehouse think 

 that her transcendent " We " is more qualified to 

 deal with them than Nature ? ' She condemns her 

 own attitude with her own words. It is because 

 these things are so seemingly complex that I have 

 urged we should leave them alone. 



With regard to the influences of education and 

 to Miss Wodehouse' s contention " that some part 

 of the social value "of individuals depends upon the 

 fact that organs increase their capacity by use ; 



* Page 13. 



