MISCELLANEOUS 

 CONSIDERATIONS. 



TRUE RELATION OF PARENTS AND OFFSPRING. 



IT is difficult to entirely free ourselves from 

 the flattering and almost universal idea that parents 

 are true originators or creators of copies of 

 themselves. But the main truth, if not the whole 

 truth, is that they are merely the transmitters 

 of_tvj)es of which they and their offspring are 

 alike more or less similarly moulded resultants. 

 A parent is a trustee. He_ transmits, not him- 

 self and his own modifications, but the stock, the 

 type, the representative elements, of which he is 

 a product and a custodian in one. It seems 



