Genetics, medicine, and man / H. J. Muller, C. C. Little , Laurence H. Snyder.
- Hermann Joseph Muller
- Date:
- 1947
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Credit: Genetics, medicine, and man / H. J. Muller, C. C. Little , Laurence H. Snyder. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PARENTAL INFLUENCE equality and of the omnipotence of environmental factors. It will also eventually show man what are the permanent, recogniz¬ able, and controllable tools with which he can eradicate or forestall the inroads of many undesirable physical, emotional, and psycho¬ logical traits. In so doing genetics will steadily exert a highly desirable pressure on human thought in the direction of unselfish interest in and attention to coming generations and the future welfare of mankind. Selfish and impatient persons will undoubted¬ ly oppose its progress and debate its discoveries. In spite of this, however, the basic truth that man must face the more difficult and fundamental problems which influence his destiny, as well as the more temporary and superficial repair of his obvious weaknesses, will eventually win the victory. We are on the threshold of the age of biology as a growing force in human affairs. Within twenty years this fact will be as apparent to all as it now is to some. In these two decades of transition biolo¬ gists must be devoted in labor, conservative in interpretation, and tolerant in argument. If they are we may face tlie future with real optimism and high hopes that medicine will more and more rely upon a sound foundation of experimental fact derived from genetic studies on laboratory mammals. REFERENCES [See end of Chapter IV.] 87](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18029152_0104.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
