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characters of parents are inherited by the children subsequently 

 born. 



7. Accepted. 



8. Accepted. 



9. Accepted. 



10. Accepted. 



11. Accepted. 



12. Simply because the drunken die out. 



13. Accepted. 



14. Yes, the inborn tendency to inebriety is heritable, but I 

 cannot accept the statement of the Report that the trait is most 

 marked in races that have had little or no experience of the 

 poison, which statement is unsupported by any evidence of 

 proof. 



15. Yes, I agree that foetuses and embryos are injured by 

 maternal inebriety, and think it highly probable that the injury 

 may produce in such a special predisposition to inebriety, though 

 evidence of it may be wanting. 



I return the Report herewith, with the above comments, and, 

 as I was not present at the earlier sittings of the Committee, I 

 feel that I cannot honestly sign the Report. 



A. E. T. LONGHURST. 



Comments by Surgeon-Major PoOLE. 



1 . I deny that there is any individual genesis of inebriety. 



2. This paragraph then falls to the ground in consequence of 

 my denial of No. i. 



3. This I agree to. 



4. There is no proof of this. One drunken generation suc- 

 ceeds another on account of the education in inebriety given to 

 their offspring by drunken parents. The evidence of non-heredity 

 appears to me just as strong as the evidence of heredity, for we 



