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tion of circumstances. He might ascribe much importance to 
each of these events, and think how largely the destiny of the 
stick had been governed by a series of trifling accidents. Never- 
theless all the sticks succeed in passing down the current, and in 
the long-run, they travel at nearly the same rate. So it is with 
life, in respect to the several accidents which seem to have had a 
great effect upon our careers. The one element, that varies in 
different individuals, but is constant in each of them, is the natu- 
ral tendency; it corresponds to the current in the stream, and 
inevitably asserts itself.” 
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The reader who wishes to inform himself on the present status of the science of 
genetics will find a number of good recent books among which may be mentioned 
Castle’s Genetics and Eugenics; Babcock and Clausen’s Genetics in Relation to 
Agriculture; Bateson’s, Mendel’s Principles of Heredity; Plate’s Vererbungslehre; 
Goldschmidt’s Einfiihrung in die Vererbungswissenschaft; Morgan’s Physical Basis 
of Heredity; Morgan’s et al. Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity; Walter’s Genetics 
and Punnett’s Mendelism. Thomson’s Heredity, although not brought up to 
date is still a useful general treatise. Of more special connection with the preced- 
ing chapter are the following: 
Barrington, A., and Pearson, K. A First Study of the Inheritance of Vision and of 
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Mems., 5, 1909. 
Conklin, E.G. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men. Prince- 
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Darwin, L. Heredity and Environment. Eugen. Rev. 5, 153-154, 1913. See also 
1. c. 8, 93-122, 1916. 
Davenport, C. B. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics. Holt and Co., N. Y., 1911. 
Elderton, E. M. The Relative Strength of Nurture and Nature. Eugen. Lab. 
Lect. Series, 3, 1909. 
Galton, F. Natural Inheritance. Macmillan Co., London and N. Y., 1889. In- 
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in Everyman’s Library. 
Pearl, R. Modes of Research in Genetics. Macmillan Co., N. Y., 1915. 
Pearson, K. The Grammar of Science, 2d ed. A. and C. Black, London, 1900; 
Nature and Nurture. The Problem of the Future. Eugen. Lab. Lect. Series, 
6, IgIo. 
Popenoe, P. Nature or Nurture? Jour. Hered., 6, 227-240, 1915. 
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Arnold, London, 1904. 
