The New York herald., 1922-01-15

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the world was not prepared to
admit the truths he derived from his many
experiments Having little or no knowledge
of the law of selection, society as it was
then constituted laughed rather loudly over
Meadel and his new way of accounting for
things as they are and things they might
be-" Indeed, a score of years were suffered
TO pass before the Mendel plan, intended to
make a better race. received serious con-
sideration
A lively cause for the risibility of the
ignorant proved to be the contention that the
earth and its riches--of every kind, inclusive
of mental quality-did not necessarily belong
TO the strong" Up to then the acceptance
of might is right" as the law Of evolution
had been general.
Now there is a large Mendelian school and
books enough to fill a good sized case have
been written and published about the Brunne
philosopher His early experiments have
been repeated over and over, and additional
ones made both with plants and animals
The tall and the dwarf specimen have been
coupled and new product found. His
word for germ cell which is gamete has
found scholarly acceptance and another
word-zygote-was coined to designate the
product when two gametes united
New Theories of Weak and
Strong Go Back to Nature
Then as almost always happens after
savants have worked out theories somebody
with common sense goes back to nature
and announces that all they have found is
really an old custom of that reverend an
not been artificially interfered with the tall
man has in nearly every case chosen a little
woman for wife and the weak man. or
The man with weaknesses. has been accepted
for a husband by the strong minded woman.
In this way nature provides for n certain
mean stature in race and prevents the
weak from going to the wall
Albert p. Mathews in the January Yale
ReDteU has this to say:
Though in the struggle between indi
viduals of the same kind the strong often
succeed while the weak perish, yet in the
long course of time, and in the general trend
of evolution this Is not true; the weak that
we're adapted to rapid change have often
actually replaced the strong but more slug
gish II is the nervous system the qualities
of the mind, memory. intelligence, judgment,
which have been selected"
Migration keeps a species true localiza-
tlOna letS IL slip, says DdNiu cCdii Joiusih
but he adds that in the free interbreeding OF
migration mems peculiarities would be lost
Both statements are true enough when
added to the more general one that any race
or snecies of man, as of plants and other
animals, is in a degree a product OF geog-
raphy. The Czecho-Slav is Influenced by
his new physical surroundings when he
comes to this country, but he customarily
remains true enough to his nativity to take
a wife from his own race when he marries
And the children Of that marriage still pos
sess by inheritance some of the qualities
of the racial germ.
Such racial marriages are attributed to
natural selection, and whether the offspring
are strong mentally and physically or the
reverse depends on heredity. OF this subject
a great deal more remains TO be said. 1t
may be noted here that the physically strong
children of the races of central Europe In
the new opportunities of America exhibit
remarkable intelligence, but this does not
mean that a new race has been started.
These children, in the opinion of savants,
especially Of M. Vachs de la Pouge of Paris.
Inherited the possibilities of their parents
and not the actual condition of those
progenitors.