INHERITED INJURIES. 



INHERITED MUTILATIONS. 



THE almost universal non-inheritance of muti- 

 lations seems to me a far more valid argument 

 against a general law of modification-inheritance 

 than the few doubtful or abnormal cases of 

 such inheritance can furnish in its favour. 

 No inherited effect has been produced by the 

 docking of horses' tails for many generations, or 

 by a well-known mutilation which has been 

 practised by the Hebrew race from time imme- 

 morial. As lost or mutilated parts are reproduced 

 in offspring independently of the existence of 

 those parts in the parent, there is the less reason 



