Studious habits transmitted to children, 205 Subliminal self, orders conveyed to, by hypnotic suggestion, 222 Suggestion as an aid to child training, 214, 221 Suggestion by parents to children for educational purposes, 223 Suggestion during mesmeric sleep, bad habits cured by, 214 Suggestion during mesmeric sleep, beneficial effect of, over mental dullness, 215 Suggestion, hypnotic, influence of, in developing self-control, 219 Suggestion, hypnotic, method of, employed by Dr. R. Osgood Mason for educational purposes, 215 _et seq._ Suggestive therapeutics, 214 Superiority of offspring, where limited, 184 Surgical operations, prevention of pain in, by mesmerism, 214 Survival of the fittest, 9 Survival, what constitutes fitness for, 141 Sympathy, spiritual, as the basis of race improvement, 53 Taxation, burden of, created by war, 203 Telegony, 85 _et seq._ Temper, bad, cured by hypnotic suggestion, 217 Tenderness to be combined with strength in bringing up children, 213 Theoretical baby, 185 _et seq._ Thought transference induced artificially in hypnotic state, 224 Thought transference, nature of, 224 Thought transference, transmission of health by, to a young sick child, 224 Timidity cured by hypnotic suggestion, 216 Toes, modification of the, in man, 112 Touch, modification of the sense of, 114 Training of children aided by hypnotic suggestion, 221 Training of children, Plutarch on the, 16 _et seq._ Transformation of heredity, 83 Transitory states of parents, effect of on offspring, 59 Transmission by mother to child of aptitude for hard work, 207 Transmission by mother to child of artistic and literary tastes, 204 _et seq._, 207 Transmission by mother to child of taste for study of natural history, 206 Transmission by mother to child of taste for surgical nursing, 207 Transmission of acquired characters. _See_ "Acquired characters." Transmission of effects of exercise, 111 _Tylor, E. B._, 64, 67 Twins, resemblance of, 90 Unborn children injured by war, 199 Unborn children, interests of, 199 Unfit, elimination of the, 139 Unicellular organisms, 109 Uterine existence, disturbances of, 58, 68 Vaccination as a preserver of weak constitutions, 143 Vitality, surplus, production of offspring depends on, 169 _Wake, C. Staniland_, 21, 42, 66 _Wallace, A. R._, 44, 136 Wallace, Alfred Russell, on prenatal influences, 204 War and parentage, 199 War, effects of, on civilization, 199 War, effects of, on unborn children, 199 _et seq._ War, enemy to the highest motherhood, 204 _Weber, Professor_, 114 _Weismann, Professor_, 72, 74 _et seq._, 78, 107, 118 Wet nurses, use of, accompanied by physical weakness, 208 Whale, modification of structure of the, 115 White race, superiority of the, due to consciousness of duty towards the race, 211