"But something may be done, that we will not: And sometimes we are devils to ourselves, When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency." —Shakespeare.
THROWN IN WITH THE CITY'S DEAD
AN IRRESPONSIBLE EDUCATED CLASS
THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF WOMAN IN HEREDITY
HEREDITY IN ITS RELATIONS TO A DOUBLE STANDARD OF MORALS
DIVORCE AND THE PROPOSED NATIONAL LAWS
POINTS HUMOROUS AND OTHERWISE ABOUT LIFE INSURANCE.
HEREDITY: IS ACQUIRED CHARACTER OR CONDITION TRANSMITTIBLE?
ENVIRONMENT: CAN HEREDITY BE MODIFIED
There are at least two sides to every question. Usually there are several times two sides; or at least there are several phases in which the question has a different aspect.
I am led to state these seemingly unnecessary truisms because I have been confronted by hearers or readers who assumed, since I had presented a certain phase or manifestation of heredity in a given article or lecture, that I was intending to argue that a fixed rule of transmission would necessarily follow the line I had then and there drawn.
Nothing could be farther from my idea of the workings of the law of heredity.
Nothing could be more absurdly inadequate to the solution and comprehension of a great basic principle.
Again; an auditor or critic remarks that "We must not forget that we, also, get our heredity from God;" which is much as if one were to say, in teaching the multiplication table, "Remember that three times three is nine except, only, the times when God makes it fifteen." So absolute a misconception of the very meaning of the word heredity could hardly be illustrated in any other way as in the idea of "getting it from God."
Scientific terms and facts of this nature cannot be confounded with metaphysical an