Heredity as Treated by Some of the Principal New England AuthorsUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1902 - 166 strani |
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acter ancestral Arthur Dimmesdale birth Blithedale Romance born Boston Boston Review Calvinistic century Chap char character of Donatello child Clifford Colonel Pyncheon consequences creature crime Darwin daughter element Elsie Venner Emerson England writers environment expression eyes fact father Fauntleroy germ plasm Guardian Angel hereditary influence Hester Prynne Holgrave Holmes and Hawthorne Holmes was interested House of Seven human responsibility Ibid important individual inherited intellectual Judge Pyncheon Lamarck lived Lowell Marble Faun mental and moral Method of Evolution Miriam moral nature Mortal Antipathy mother Myrtle natural selection OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Origin of Species original sin passions Pearl peculiar period personality physical present study pride of ancestry principle of heredity problems of heredity Professor progenitor Puritan question race result Riverside Edition Scarlet Letter scientific Seven Gables story subject of heredity suggested temperament theory of heredity thought tion traits treatment Twice-Told Tales Unitarianism Weismann wild Zenobia and Priscilla
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Stran 51 - The child could not be made amenable to rules. In giving her existence, a great law had been broken; and the result was a being whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but all in disorder, or with an order peculiar to themselves, amidst which the point of variety and arrangement was difficult or impossible to be discovered.
Stran 72 - How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?
Stran 48 - She is one of those delicate, nervous young creatures, not uncommon in New England, and whom I suppose to have become what we find them by the gradual refining away of the physical system among your women. Some philosophers choose to glorify this habit of body by terming it spiritual ; but, in my opinion, it is rather the effect of unwholesome food, bad air, lack of outdoor exercise, and neglect of bathing, on the part of these damsels and their female progenitors, all resulting in a kind of hereditary...
Stran 71 - Some qualities she carefully fixes and transmits, but some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual, as too costly to perpetuate. But I notice also that they may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts them and bakes them into her porcelain.
Stran 51 - Hester could only account for the child's character — and even then most vaguely and imperfectly — by recalling what she herself had been, during that momentous period while Pearl was imbibing her soul from the spiritual world, and her bodily frame from its material of earth. The mother's impassioned state had been the medium through which were transmitted to the unborn infant the rays of its moral life...
Stran 52 - It appalled her, nevertheless, to discern here, again, a shadowy reflection of the evil that had existed in herself. All this enmity and passion had Pearl inherited, by inalienable right, out of Hester's heart. other and daughter stood together in the same circle of seclusion from human society...
Stran 34 - Nature has adapted the family organization to the kind of life it has lived. The hands and feet by constant use have got more than their share of development, — the organs of thought and expression less than their share. The finer instincts are latent and must be developed. A youth of this kind is raw material in its first stage of elaboration. You must not expect too much...
Stran 35 - ... intellectual acquirements. A series of felicitous crosses develops an improved strain of blood, and reaches its maximum perfection at last in the large uncombed youth who goes to college and startles the hereditary classleaders by striding past them all. That is Nature's republicanism ; thank God for it, but do not let it make you illogical. The race of the hereditary scholar has exchanged a certain portion of its animal vigor for its new instincts, and it is hard to lead men without a good deal...
Stran 50 - She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days ; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication.
Stran 58 - He perpetrated a great crime; and his remorse, gnawing into his soul, has awakened it; developing a thousand high capabilities, moral and intellectual, which we never should have dreamed of asking for, within the scanty compass of the Donatello whom we knew." "I know not whether this is so," said Hilda. "But what then?" "Here comes my perplexity,