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brjon and its future growth, this" resera-' 

 blance must have appeared to him extremely 

 curious ; and he used, in his lectures, 

 to record every instance that came with- 

 in his own knowledge, with his usual accu- 

 racy and fidelity. He recited instances of 

 children who had never seen their parents, 

 resembling them, not only most exactly in 

 form, but also in manners, and in peculiar 

 and whimsical habits. He mentioned also 

 cases where children acquired the same dis- 

 eases at the same period of life to which the 

 parent had also been subject at the same 

 age. He dwelt upon the resemblance of 

 twins, and (as in his lectures on sympa- 

 thies) actually wearied his audience by the 

 number of facts he recorded, and the mi- 

 nuteness and accuracy with which he de- 

 tailed them. 



Such instances, however, are not only 

 curious, as demonstrative of the powers 

 and progress of the vital actions, but they 

 also deserve general consideration ; for chil- 

 dren resemble their parents not only in 

 person but in mind. Nature has made us 



