the earth unless he could prove it to be old. Filmer in his 
Pat riarcha sought to ground the authority of Charles II 
on the authority granted by Jehovah to the patriarchs of the Old 
Testament. Even in our own American Society of progress 
and enlightenment our watchwords are significant of the forces 
we must conjure up to break away from “the old.” Neverthe¬ 
less changes will come about. We will advance. Feeling about 
the gods is long lived, but comparitive religion is more and more 
the order of the day. The Igorrote chief who but a few years 
back complained that the women would not marry men who did 
not take heads had laid his crease away. 
Eight years ago I had the honor to present an important 
scientific discovery, a new biologic and eugenic law, to Professor 
Charles B. Davenport, Chief of the Experimental Evolution 
Bureau of the Carnegie Institution. The response of Professor 
Davenport was not then very receptive; in fact, my new law 
was not received as an honored guest. Yet today Professor 
Charles B. Davenport addresses the National Academy of 
Sciences at Washington, D. C., delivering to the world, after 
eight years of negative attitude scientific statements identical 
with those I presented to him in January, 1910. Professor 
Davenport told the National Academy of Sciences in 1918 noth¬ 
ing more nor less than the science embodied in the “Dechmann 
Law of the Determination of Sex at Will,” and as a natural 
consequence of this law, the law of the “Cross-Transmission of 
Charasteristics.” In order to duly receive priority rights and 
acknowledgment I had this law copyrighted December 18, 1909. 
It briefly presents that it is a Law of Nature that “The victory 
in the generation of sex, opposite to itself goes to that plasm 
which was weaker at the moment of conception forced through 
the law of ‘Preservation of Kind’—supported by the ‘latent 
Reserve-Energy’ which is inherent in every organism—From 
this law the rule as to generation of sex at will is devolved. 
Further, as to the law of Cross-Transmission of Characteristics, 
it is presented that it is a Law of Nature that the mother is rep¬ 
resented in the male offspring and the father in the female, the 
female child thus following the father and the father’s mother, 
and so forth back into time, and the male child following the 
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