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about inheritance, just as there are from a hundred 

 and one other lines of consideration related to this 

 world and its contents. We do not know very 

 much it may fairly be said we know nothing 

 as to the vehicle of inheritance. We know a 

 little, but it is still a very little even in comparison 

 with what we may yet come to know as the result 

 of careful and long-continued experiment, about 

 the laws of inheritance. What we do learn from 

 our knowledge, such as it is, is the fact that we 

 can give no intelligent or intelligible explanation 

 of the facts brought before us except on the 

 hypothesis of a Creator and Maintainer of all 

 things. 



