C2 HEREDITY AND CHRISTIAN PROBLEMS 



taint grows less and less. Nature may be severe, 

 but she is neither cruel nor malign. In the long 

 run her processes always work blessing for the 

 race. No child is condemned because of the sin 

 of his parents, and though many suffer because 

 of such sins, yet the successive generations are 

 quickly taken in hand by nature, and sooner or 

 later purified from hereditary taint — a redemptive 

 process that has received too little attention from 

 the writers of our theologies and theodicies. 



