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distinguished husband, and inversely. . . . Moreover," as he 

 adds, "the most deceptive point is the contrast of a man of 

 genius with his children who do not rise to his standard 

 because they represent a combination of ancestral energies 

 with their other parent.!' 



We shall return to this subject later in the book. 



The next chapter goes back to the man who first dis- 

 covered that color, shape, etc. are inherited through the 

 working of definite laws. No name to-day ranks higher 

 among students of biology than that of Gregor Mendel, 

 the man who studied flowers for the sake of understanding 

 inheritance. 



