Address on heredity in relation to insanity, given to the members of the London County Council, at the County Hall, S.W., on June 26th, 1912 / by F.W. Mott.
- Frederick Walker Mott
- Date:
- [1912?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Address on heredity in relation to insanity, given to the members of the London County Council, at the County Hall, S.W., on June 26th, 1912 / by F.W. Mott. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![miml. W'lieii the mingled mitures ol: two separate parents by a liappy chance leads to a combination of energy from one and imagination from the other in tlie dual inheritance, tlien a great genius may arise, a,s in the case of (xoethe, who ]')oeticalIy refers to his own hereditai*y endowments : “ Yon Yater hah ich die Statur, Des Lebens ernstes Fuliren, Yoin Muttercheii die Frolmatiir Un Lust zu fabulieren/’ Wliicli, freely translated, means that he derived his physique and energy from his father and his poetic imagination and affective tone from his mother. The infamous Roman Fanperor Cominodus resembled his father, the great Marcus Aurelius, in his form and features, and the licentious Faustina, his mother, in his character. Fig. 2. —Diag-rain illustrating Galton’s ‘ Law of Ancestral Inheritance’ (after Galton). The figure was originally due to Mr. A. J. Meston (‘ The Horseman/ Chicago, December 28th, 1897). Laws or HeREDiry. In order to make my future remarks clearer, let me briefly refer to two laws of heredity. I will commence with the Law of Ancestral Inheritance of Gralton. According to this law each germ, male and female, contains on an average representative particles or germinal determinants derived from the two ancestral stocks in definite pro- portions. This diagram illustrates my meaning (Fig. 2^). The total dual inheritance is represented by the whole square. Thus one quarter conies * Fig. 2 has been taken from Arthur Thomson’s ‘ Heredity,’ with the kind permission of the author, and .John Murray, the publislier.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28060908_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
