THE INHERITANCE OF FAMILY TRAITS 61 



and the remarkable result has been deduced that the higher 

 grades of all these quaUties act, in inheritance, as though 

 they were due to the absence of something that is present 



merehuiLt' 

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^3^ nmrlKdintclIii 



1 76 poralysi 



US.Omdt +|fi +81 Genena (*le handsame J^llllJSS fine Sv^J^ 



fineintcl mnaldan ^lenrotic aUe +y&'rcstiw hrajn 

 dissolote piiniar'SiKmni gn^a\sxf «sailor iumtv 



Fig. 26, — Pedigree of brilliancy combined with defect and melancholia. 



F. R. 



in persons of poorer ability. It is as if the difference between 

 a person of high ability and one of low ability in respect 

 to any mental trait is that the person of high ability has 



D]C> myO 



Fig. 27. — Pedigree of family with artistic (dark upper section), Hterary 

 (right section) and musical (left section) ability. 



got rid of a something possessed by the person of lower 

 abihty that prevents the latter from fully exercising his 

 faculties; — he has sloughed off one or more inhibitors. 



14. Temperament 



Two contrasted temperaments are usually recognized. 

 One phlegmatic, slow, rarely depressed; the opj^site ner- 



