HUMAN LIFE 



HEREDITY AND HUMAN PROBLEMS 



THIS all too slight discussion and all 

 of our discussion can be only sugges 

 tive, not exhaustive of biological and 

 social inheritance in connection with the 

 war problem, brings us naturally to a 

 consideration of certain other problems 

 of human life in connection with which 

 this distinction between biological and 

 social inheritance, and their conflict and 

 relative importance, are of special in 

 terest. 



It has been so much the fashion lately 

 to emphasize the importance of a consid 

 eration of purely biological conditions 

 and laws in the discussions of human 

 problems a wise fashion, undoubtedly 

 that some too hasty and thoughtless 

 readers and hearers of such discussions 

 may have gained the impression that the 

 only biology to consider in this connection 

 was the biology which one learns from a 

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