The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-31
The influence of Heredity.


the physicians of the city. DR.. Spald
ing, City Physician, has given the fol
lowing expression of his views on the
subject for publication:
When the Almighty created man
and everything that roams the woods
or wings the sky or swims along the
floods, He distinctly declared that all
should. Increase and multiply, each
bringing forth after it's own kind.
This law of heredity, therefore, had
it's origin in the fat of omnipotence
and was stamped upon every species
that was instinct with life from the
beginning to endure till the end of
time.
Creation was accomplished but once,
after which the species were propagat-
ed and perpetuated by virtue of seed
within themselves. See Gensis, LIST
Chap, 18th and 18th verses.
According to the health and sound
mess of the source from which the pro-
genY IS propagated shall be the per-
lection or otherwise of the offspring
for GAS We sow so shall ye reap"
In the propagation of any species it
is impossible that perfection shall be
begotten or bred out of imperfection.
~''Men cannot gather grapes of the
thorns nor figs of thistles."
The term "reproduc- IN" plainly in1-
plies that the parent is produced a sec
ond time in its progeny, and this off,
spring of the parent shall be in the ex-
act image and after the living likeness
of the parent at the time of concep-
ton. every good tree, therefore,
bringeth forth good fruit and every
evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit"
- Every tree and everything bringeth
forth fruit after it's kind
For thousands of years human expe-
~rience has affirmed the wisdom of the
divine decree that the progeny will
bear the full impress of the parent at
the time the offspring was produced.
In illustration let tree be injured by
insects or otherwise and withered and
devita1ized-then 1etits seed be secured
and sown-the result must be the same
as when the weevi1 has injured the
wheat or drought or mould has shrivel-
ed the seed corn which, if employed
and planted the husbandman has the
positive assurance from experience
that the crop from such seed will be
blighted and bad and withered and
worse than the original stock.
Hence we have evolved the reliable
law that perfection in any possible di-
rection can be maintained only by a
special selection of the very best seed
from which to propagate any particular
species; especial selection" for pur-
poses of propagation whether in the
vegetable, animal or human species
secures alone "the survival of the
eittest.'
There is scarcely farmer in any
civilized countrJ- whether he cultivates
grain, fruits, flowers, poultry, pigs,
cattle or horses who does not recognize
the rectitude and who is not governed
ia ali his business operations by the
most careful selections of his seed and
breeding stock, with the assurance
that by thus obeying great natural
law, he shall escape business ruin and
secure right results.
1t cannot thus be doubted that God
has given to every species a law of
heredity-that nature and human ey-
perience embrace it and men build
their business upon it and are governed
by it in every possible way until it
reaches the domain of the domestic
relation and demands a consideration
of its application to the human race.
Here in the dawn of the Goth CEN
turv we find a great fundamental and
essen tia1 law of life demonstrated as
to its absolute utility and dedicated to
all the business relations of life, aid
vet crimina11y ignored and disregard
ed in its highest application to the
domestic life, to society, and the per
.petuity of the State.
need scarcely suggest the difficulty
in dealing with the question of here
,dity in the human race, as it arises
luminous above its relations to every
other species on account of the poten
play of mind upon matter which modi
6es and magnifies the law of heredity
in its relation to the human race alone
We read of Roman natrons required
to consider the prowess and of gazing
upon the statues of warriors and demi
gods that their unborn babes nigh
initiate and emulate their prodigies O.
valor through the process of menta
moulding; and the mother of Joh1
Wesley devoted hours each day t.
prayer and sanity meditation.