Prometheus, or, biology and the advancement of man / by H.S. Jennings.

  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
Date:
[1925]
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    ■ PROMETHEUS ditions under which he develops, and would be diverse under different con¬ ditions, just as is true of the character¬ istics that develop under education. And the characters developed under education depend upon the hereditary materials derived from the parents, changing as these materials are altered, just as do all others. Hereditary has no consistent meaning other than this. The teachings of genetics may be summarized in Aristotle's saying— the nature of man is not what he is born as, but what he is bom for — paraphrased perhaps into the form the inheritance of man is not alone what he is born with, but what he can develop. Why it seems paradoxical to call the characteristics developed under educa¬ tion inherited, while we make no diffi¬ culty in thus designating the colour of [58]