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logically, we have seen that instincts, sensorial qualities, 

 memory, imagination, intellect, sentiments and passions, and 

 even the human will everything, in fact, relating to man in 

 his dynamism are alike subject to heredity, yet the tendency 

 to variation, co-existing with heredity in every organic being, 

 necessitates the differentiation of individuals, and renders 

 the ideal law of heredity unattainable and impossible. 



Regarding a man microcosmically, i.e., trying to analyse 

 his individuality as to what he is and has organically and 

 dynamically, we find him evolved from an embryonic vesicle, 

 the joint production of his parents. Here his individuality 

 commences. But this same embryonic vesicle has the for- 

 mative capacity of transmitting with him, not only the physi- 

 cal, mental, and moral nature of his immediate progenitors, 

 but also some peculiarities of their ancestors for probably 

 many generations, so that the source of some of his physical, 

 mental, or moral peculiarities may have been transmitted 

 from a remote past. This is indeed a mystery, before which 

 Science stands baffled and appalled ! The fact, however, is 

 indisputable. In the brief first stage of life of the unborn 

 in addition to the diseases developed in the body while it 

 is still in the womb of the mother (to which I shall refer 

 anon) there occur to the body affections which exercise an 

 influence over its individuality, and which leave impressions 

 that last throughout the after-life. Bearing with him, then, 

 a physical, mental, and moral nature, consisting of qualities, 

 ancestral, paternal, and maternal, he is at length ushered into 

 the world, and from the moment of his birth is subjected to 

 the circumstances constituting his environment, amid which 

 his struggle for existence must be fought, and amid which 

 he must be to some extent victorious if he survives. But, 

 analysing his individuality still further, we find that what 



