I20 FOOT-NOTES TO EVOLUTION. 



First, from his parents, Richard Roe has inherited 

 humanity, the parts and organs and feelings of a man. 



" Hath he not eyes ? Hath he not hands, 

 Inheritance of j- • rr ^• 



organs, dimensions, senses, affections, 

 humanity. . - ' 



passions? fed with the same food, hurt 



with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, 

 healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the 

 same winter and summer " as you or I or any other 

 king or beggar we know of ? " If you prick us, do we 

 not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you 

 poison us, do we not die ? if you wrong us, shall we not 

 revenge?" All this, the common heritage of Jew or 

 Gentile, goes to the making of Richard Roe. His an- 

 cestors on both sides have been human, and that for 

 many and many generations, so that "the knowledge of 

 man runneth not to the contrary." Even the prehuman 

 ancestry, dimly seen by the faith of science, had in it 

 the potentialities of manhood. Descended for countless 

 ages from man and woman, man born of woman Richard 

 Roe surely is. 



We may go farther with certainty. Richard Roe will 

 follow the race type of his parentage. If he is Anglo- 

 Saxon, as his name seems to denote, all 



en ance o Anglo-Saxon by blood, he will be all 

 race characters. .,o • i- rr^i- 



Anglo-Saxon in quality. To his charac- 

 ters of common humanity we may add those common to 

 the race. He will not be negro nor Mongolian, and he 

 will have at least some traits and tendencies not found 

 in the Latin races of southern Europe. 



But his friends will know Richard Roe best not by 



the great mass of his human traits nor by his race 



characteristics. These may be predomi- 



n ivi ua ^^^^ ^^^ ineradicable, but they are not 



distinctive. He must be known by his 



peculiarities, by his specialties and his deficiencies. 



