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Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is hard to realize that the sonof a skilled pianist should not inherit insome degree his fathers ability; altho thefather most certainly acquired it since hisViirth. But if acquired flexibility of thehand can be inherited, why not an acquiredstiffness of the joints due to prolongedsojourn in the trenches? Writes the editor: The war has done nmch to rejuvenatethis problem in the iioi)ular mind. Withthousands of men throiis^diout the civilizedworld mutilated, the question as to whatinlluence this will have on the offspringof such men has inevitably arisen in theminds of many. )Moreover. there is not alittle confusion with regard to a number ofrecent discoveries. Let us consider this problem from se\-eral angles. In the first place, belief in theinheritance of acquired characters was anintegral i)art of two great vi(>ws of evolu-tion. Lamarck, the Fn>nch scientistand i)hilosopher. postulated this form oftransmission. Whv? Was it because he The Literary Digest for March 15, 1919 119
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