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HEREDITY. 



All Seeming 



Contradictions 



Explicable. 



No Exceptions 

 to the Law of 

 Heredity. 



fluences. Here in America all other nationalities 

 soon lose their individuality, so that in three or 

 four generations it is difficult to determine the na- 

 tionality from any physical or mental character- 

 istic. But a Jew is a Jew the world over. Under 

 all climatic, geographical and sociological condi- 

 tions he retains the Hebrew character. A people 

 without a home or nationality, and yet the most 

 distinct people and most pronounced nationality 

 on earth. 



The significance of the foregoing propositions 

 will hardly be appreciated without reflection ; yet 

 the thoughtful mind will readily see that they ac- 

 count for all the facts, seeming contradictions, 

 "exceptions" and phenomena of heredity. Theoso- 

 phists and those unacquainted with the several 

 phases of heredity are very prone to cite this fact 

 or phenomena in human life as being inexplicable 

 on the basis of heredity. It only seems so because 

 their knowledge of the subject is limited. When 

 we consider the potentiality of all the several 

 factors indicated, the variety and peculiarities 

 made possible by their ever- varying combina- 

 tions; when we realize how national types and 

 the fixed characteristics of parents may be modi- 

 fied in their offspring by planetary conditions, 

 changed by prenatal influences, or the whole bent 

 of a life determined by some strong maternal im- 

 pression, it is easy to account for all the physical, 

 mental and moral peculiarities observable in 

 human life. There are no exceptions to the laws 

 of heredity any more than there are to the law of 

 gravitation. 



The factors of "species," "racial types" and 



