22 HEREDITY AND CHRISTIAN PROBLEMS 



of character, that, these being transmitted, may- 

 result in nobler types of manhood. If Weismann 

 is correct, and the peculiarities of individuals 

 are due to their environment, then the problem 

 is simpler still, and all that any can do, or need 

 do, is to seek to make possible a full and true 

 expression of the normal human life. 



I have gone somewhat particularly into this 

 difference of theory, not to discuss the scientific 

 question at issue, but to show that the Christian 

 problems I am to consider are not greatly affected 

 by the theory of heredity that may be adopted. 



