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2. It is only natural that men and women who are not “well-born” in the sense of being the offspring of healthy parents, should suffer certain mental disadvantages. Physical weaknesses nearly always affect adversely the qualities of the mind; and, so far as bodily idiosyncrasies act and react on mental conditions, it is probable that the good and bad qualities of every parentage are transmitted to its progeny.

The Pelman Institute has found that many people trace their mind-wandering habits to inheritance from one or both parents; and although a few may be mistaken in this diagnosis, there can be no doubt that maternal and paternal qualities are in some instances, faithfully reproduced in the children. The subject is one around which many controversies have raged, and we have no desire to re-open an acrid discussion. It is sufficient to point out that a natural or developed inefficiency of brain development, such as a lack of concentration, is hardly likely to appear in the next generation as a superb power of focusing attention. The probability, if not the actuality, is all the other way.