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by means of the nervous system, and if the moment 

 of reproduction arrives they repeat the same 

 formula N which is peculiar to them. On the 

 contrary, if the formula N is altered, as the germin- 

 ating cells receive every moment the impressions 

 of the organism, the latter will undergo modification, 

 following the same oscillations as the nervous 

 system ; and as soon as the moment of reproduction 

 arrives, if the alteration is not so serious as to have 

 neutralised the fertilising power, they will reproduce 

 the same type of alteration in the organism at the 

 moment of its release, that is, will reproduce the 

 formula N' (A', B', C', D'), which is pathological 

 heredity. 



Adding these ideas to those explained in the 

 chapter on health and the general laws of mechanics, 

 we shall understand that, if the absurd social medium 

 in which we live alters the organic constitution so 

 far as to weaken it, the descendants of one sick 

 generation must be just another sick generation. 



The index of organic resistance in man is 

 enormous ; the aberration that his chemical 

 mechanism can undergo oscillates within con- 

 siderable limits, and thus it is explained how 

 humanity resists so many calamities and outrages. 

 The disturbance of the formula N' (A', B', C', D') 

 always tends to recover its rhythm, to return to 

 its normal state, to the formula N (A, B, C, D), 



