io8 HEREDITY. 



complete counterpart. Such complex, eccentric 



Degrees of natures are seldom happy in marriage and are not 

 Adaptability. . FFJ , 



apt to give a very favorable inheritance to chil- 

 dren. Others are so harmoniously developed, 

 both mentally and temperamentally, that they 

 have a very wide range of adaptability. They 

 can be happy and companionable with any one 

 they love, adapting themselves perfectly to the 

 disposition of the companion. Such wide range 

 of adaptability, however, is rare. Most persons 

 are adapted to only a few, and must find their 

 counterpart if they are to be reasonably happy in 

 domestic life or parent children who are well 

 born. 



Many are disappointed in their domestic life 

 because they are looking for the impossible. The 

 romantic dreams of the idealist can never be 

 Impossible^ thC frdty realized until human nature has outgrown 

 its selfishness. So long as people are imperfect 

 and unhappy within themselves it is irrational to 

 expect undisturbed bliss in their domestic rela- 

 tions. The association in tl^e bond of wedlock of 

 a man and a woman, both of whom are imperfect 

 and incapable of satisfying themselves, cannot 

 produce a heaven on earth. 



"The happiest and the wisest pair, 

 Will find occasion to forbear, 

 And something every day they live 



To pity, and perhaps forgive." 

 While perfection is impossible to mortals in any 

 sphere of life, there is a possibility that every 

 fairly well organized man or woman will find a 

 companion whose temperament, desires, ambi- 

 tions, likes and dislikes will harmonize so nearly 



