Art and Science 



course of development. The actual course 

 of development presents precisely the pheno- 

 mena agreeable with this. For fuller treat- 

 ment of this point I must refer the reader to 

 the chapter on the abeyance of memory in 

 my book " Life and Habit," already re- 

 ferred to. 



Secondly, we remember best our last few 

 performances of any given kind, so our present 

 performance will probably resemble some one 

 or other of these ; we remember our earlier 

 performances by way of residuum only, but 

 every now and then we revert to an earlier 

 habit. This feature of memory is manifested 

 in heredity by the way in which offspring 

 commonly resembles most its nearer ancestors, 

 but sometimes reverts to earlier ones. Brothers 

 and sisters, each as it were giving their own 

 version of the same story, but in different 

 words, should generally resemble each other 

 more closely than more distant relations. And 

 this is what actually we find. 



Thirdly, the introduction of slightly new 

 elements into a method already established 

 varies it beneficially; the new is soon fused 

 with the old, and the monotony ceases to be 



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