HUMAN LIFE 



including all environment? Of course 

 this is the old, old problem of nature and 

 nurture, already threshed out, one might 

 imagine, to its last possible degree. But 

 if that were true for yesterday it is not 

 true for today, for the reason that we 

 are daily, almost, finding out new things 

 about heredity. Since the beginning of 

 this century we have learned more that 

 seems to be fact about heredity, plant 

 and animal heredity in general and hu- 

 man heredity in particular, than had been 

 learned in all previous time. 



In the 1860's an Augustinian monk 

 named Gregor Mendel, living in a clois- 

 ter in Brunn in Moravian Austria and 

 possessed not only of a divine humility 

 and devotion but of the divine spark 

 of scientific curiosity, or as we call it in 

 scientific circles, research, carried on an 

 extensive lot of experiments in the cloister 

 garden in the way of hybridizing various 

 races of garden peas; he was a Moravian 

 Burbank. He read an account of his 

 observations and conclusions before the 

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