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And from the other side, it is well known that men of power and genius, even when quite old, have little difficulty in attracting women, who are moved also by an instinct which if permitted a certain acceleration would cause them to attach themselves, even to the point of maternity, to such men. Excellent mothers they might be to whom for life a distinguished father could be reasonably accountable. It is a potent theme and a sound deduction that the genius of a race does not come generated out of the air but legitimately or otherwise out of the bodies of men of genius. I mean that the actual anatomic brain of genius is in the germ plasm only of certain men and is from them only transmitted to the race and has been so transmitted, tolerantly, to healthy (or otherwise) female bodies. In a place such as England, where some good man is expected to come up from "the people" at all moments, it is only reasonable to believe that the germinal particles responsible for such a phenomenon were planted in "the people" by distinguished sires at some earlier date. It is certainly the plausible explanation for obscurely emergent men of understanding.

But if the completion of a thorough biologic sexual experience be denied men and women of eminence at the selective moment and unless a means for such legitimate or a tolerance for a similar illegitimate consumption be found, the full development of these individuals and their continuance as a type will be frustrated. Their work, rather, in a practical sense, will be affected, attenuated; to a great extent weakened. It will be as it is, let us say, with American painting as contrasted with the French where a better conception of the full male instinct is plainly shown upon the canvas.

A democracy of understanding has certain prerogatives which it will exercise: accessibility of sentiment, an appreciation for the material