88 Environment and Efficiency 



although more or less transmissible, are not always trans- 

 mitted; where a predisposition is inherited, it does not 

 necessarily follow that it will be expressed in development 

 if it does not find appropriate nurture it will not express 

 itself; and eventually, whether it find expression or not, it 

 may die away altogether." 



So our race of hereditary paupers and criminals will form, 

 as generation follows generation, an ever-increasing minority, 

 until eventually who knows ? they may be crowded out alto- 

 gether by the mere force of a beneficent environment. 



