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HEREDITY. 



(3) National 



Characterists. 



(4) Family and 

 Parental Traits* 



(5) Sex 

 Potency. 



(5) Dual 

 Parentage. 



(7) Atavism, 



(8) Prenatal 

 Culture. 



from the other, and determine the type of the in- 

 dividual. 



3. NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS Or, the fac- 

 tor of national traits which further differentiate 

 members of the same race and give to each indi- 

 vidual the physical and mental characteristics of 

 his nationality. 



4. FAMILY AND PARENTAL TRAITS Or, the 

 factor of heredity arising from the peculiar phy- 

 sical and mental constitutions of the direct ances- 

 tors of each parent, plus the characteristics of the 

 immediate parents. 



5. SEX POTENCY Or, the factor of heredity 

 arising from the strength, adaptability and union 

 of the masculine and feminine principles in the 

 father and mother. 



6. DUAL PARENTAGE Or, the factor of hered- 

 ity resulting from the combination of nationalities 

 and families; from bi-sexual parentage and the 

 union and interblending of the physical and men- 

 tal qualities of parents in offspring. 



7. ATAVISM Or, the law whereby latent 

 forces physical and mental characters peculiar 

 to a species, family or individual that have not 

 been manifested for one or more generations, be- 

 come active, thereby causing the ancestral traits 

 to reappear in offspring. 



8. PRENATAL CULTURE Or, the law whereby 

 the acquired and the transient physical and mental 

 characteristics of parents particularly those that 

 are most active for some time prior to the initial 

 of a life, at the time of inception and in the mother 

 during gestation are transmitted to offspring. 



9. INITIAL IMPRESSIONS Or, the law whereby 



