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could be made by stable, feed and care, 

 regardless of their ancestry. 



While this is true, so far as domestic 

 animals are concerned, intelligent men re- 

 fuse to believe that their own children are 

 subject to the same force of heredity. Let 

 me here emphasize the fact that the laws 

 of heredity apply to man with as much 

 accuracy as they do to plant or beast and 

 every scientist acknowledges such to be the 

 case. As man is infinitely more complex 

 than are animals, so the force of heredity 

 will manifest itself in more varied ways. It 

 must be kept in mind that talents and ten- 

 dencies are all due to the power of heredity. 

 An interesting fact is that once a trait gets 

 into a family strain, it may persist for gen- 

 erations. This is altogether desirable 

 should that trait be some valuable talent. 

 Not always is it valuable, when marriage 

 takes place between families having the 

 same bad trait, for it establishes it to the 

 detriment of their posterity. It doubles up 

 the tendency and makes it more difficult to 

 eradicate. Go for a few mornings to the 

 New York City Criminal Court House and 



