120 FOOT-NOTES. TO EVOLUTION. 
First, from his parents, Richard Roe has inherited 
humanity, the parts and organs and feelings of a man, 
“Hath henot eyes? Hath he not hands, 
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, 
passions? fed with the same food, hurt 
with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, 
healed by the same means, warmed and cooled’ by the 
same winter and summer” as you or I or any other 
king or beggar we know of? “If you prick us, do we 
not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you 
poison us, do we not die? if you wrong us, shall we not 
revenge?” All this, the common heritage of Jew or 
Gentile, goes to the making of Richard Roe. His an- 
cestors on both sides have been human, and that for 
many and many generations, so that “the knowledge of 
man runneth not to thecontrary.” Even the prehuman 
ancestry, dimly seen by the faith of science, had in it 
the potentialities of manhood. Descended for countless 
ages from man and woman, man born of woman Richard 
Roe surely is. 
We may go farther with certainty. Richard Roe will 
follow the race type of his parentage. If he is Anglo- 
Saxon, as his name seems to denote, all 
Anglo-Saxon by blood, he will be all 
Anglo-Saxon in quality. To his charac- 
ters of common humanity we may add those common to 
the race. He will not be negro nor Mongolian, and he 
will have at least some traits and tendencies not found 
in the Latin races of southern Europe. 
But his friends will know Richard Roe best not by 
the great mass of his human traits nor by his race 
characteristics. These may be predomi- 
nant and ineradicable, but they are not 
distinctive. He must be known by his 
peculiarities, by his specialties and his deficiencies, 
Inheritance of 
humanity. 
Inheritance of 
race characters, 
Individual 
characters, 
