INTEMPERATE. | TEMPERATE. | Produced 57 children; 25 died in | Produced 61 children; 6 died the first week of life. These | in first week, of weakness. deaths due to convulsions, or | 4 had curable diseases. 2 oedema of brain and membranes. | showed inherited nervous defects. 2 were idiots. 5 dwarfs. 5 | This leaves 50 who were in epileptics. 1 had chorea. 5 were | every way normal, sound in body deformed. 2 became drunkards. | and mind. This leaves only 10 who showed | during the whole of life a | normal disposition and development | of body and mind. | If it were not a fact that health, purity, integrity, intellect and virtue were being transmitted to a far greater extent than sin and vice, there would be little good in the world, but the transmission of these good qualities is so extended, so like the air and the sunshine and the water, a common thing, that we almost forget to recognize it. When we turn our thoughts to the investigation of this phase of the subject, we find that vigorous parents have healthful children, that powers of intellect are transmitted, and that honesty and uprightness in the father warrants us in expecting the same in the son. We recognize the transmission of powers of intellect in the fact that where the parents have a peculiar talent, we very generally find the same talent in their children. We are acquainted with musical families, mathematical families, artistic families, and in the study of renowned people of the world we find evidences of this transmission of intellect. We also learn that the effects of education are transmissible, and if the parents are educated along a certain line the children receive education along that line much more readily. This fact becomes a wonderful incentive to us to build up all that is best in our own natures in order that through us the world may receive an impetus towards higher and better things. Sometimes when your faults and defects press upon you with tremendous force and you find it so very hard to overcome them, you may be tempted to lay the blame on your ancestry who gave you such a dower, who by their lives handicapped you in your life-struggle. You may feel inclined to say with some writer, to me unknown, who says: HEREDITY. "Your strictures are unmerited, Our follies are inherited, Directly from our gran-pas they all came; Our defects have been transmitted, And we should be acquitted Of all responsibility and blame. We are not depraved beginners, But hereditary sinners, For our fathers never acted as they should; 'Tis the folly of our gran-pas That continually hampers-- What a pity that our gran-pas weren't good!