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 THOUGHTS ON HEREDITY AND THINGS

SN'T Heredity wonderful, though!

We've been going into it rather deeply—My Little Group of Serious Thinkers, you know.

And, really, when you get into it, it s quite complicated. All about Homozygotes and Heterozygotes, you know.

The Homozygotes are—well, you might call them the aristocrats, you know; thoroughbreds.

And the Heterozygotes are the hybrids.

Only, of course, they don't need to be goats at all.

Not but what they could be goats, you know, just as easily as horses or cows or human beings.

But whether goats or humans, don't you think the great lesson of Heredity is that Blood will Tell?

Really the farther I go into Philosophy and Science and such things the more clearly I see what a fund of truth there is in the old simple proverbs!

People used to find out great truths by Instinct, you know; and now they use Research—vaccinate guinea pigs, you know, and all that sort of thing.

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