who had married a peace-loving Quaker is quite likely to have 
a boy of a bloodthirsty instinct, qualities which by no possibility 
could have been inherited from his Quaker father/’ 
Knowing the Dechmann Law, would not an intelligent, high- 
minded man halt before the scientific problem of a partner in 
life? Would a Quaker willingly, knowingly, produce highway¬ 
men in his family? Yet the Dechmann Law lifts the finger of 
warning and points the finger of instruction. 
The Eugenics Record office now under Professor Davenport, 
has led to the suggestion that there is a more scientific method 
in the selection of men for commissions in the army and navy, 
and the results tabulated indicate that the mother endows the 
son with the characteristics required. Yes, there is. There is the 
scientific method: Selection under the “Dechmann Law of De¬ 
termination of the Sex at Will” and of the “Cross-Transmis¬ 
sion of Characteristics.” 
It has remained for Professor Charles B. Davenport, after 
eight years of aloofness, to display the evidence verifying the 
science of the Dechmann Law. While he exhibited numerous 
examples of transmission of characteristics from mother to son, 
he did not adopt the term in my law “Cross-Transmission.” Does 
he yet understand? Is he not yet prepared to accept this inter¬ 
pretation, and to confess that this is not all chance, but is true 
Nature Law? He displays only a description of certain find¬ 
ings. He does not interpret them into law, nor acknowledge my 
discovery of fifteen years ago. The National Academy of 
Sciences was “surprised” by the statements of Professor Daven¬ 
port. What would their astonishment be at the full and proper 
presentation of the “Dechmann Law.” 
I must again commend my law to Professor Davenport’s 
notice, and would append the motto: 
“Opinionum enim commenta delet dies', naturae judicia con - 
firmat. n (Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it con¬ 
firms decisions founded on reality.”) Cicero. 
Again I commend to The American Association for the Ad¬ 
vancement of Science that the acceptance of the Dechmann Law 
of Cross-Transmission of Characteristics and Determination of 
the Sex at Will, its publication and recommendation, for to ex- 
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