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

  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
Date:
[1925]
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    THE ADVANCEMENT OF MAN and below the commonplace, could be cut off as parents, they would be replaced in at least large measure from the unusual progeny of the large commonplace group. But whatever eugenic measures are attempted, so long as biparental inherit¬ ance is kept up, the variety, the surprises, the perplexities, the melo¬ drama, that now present themselves among the fruits of the human vine will continue. Capitalists will con¬ tinue to produce artists, poets, social¬ ists, and labourers ; labouring men will give birth to capitalists, to philosophers, to men of science ; fools will produce wise men and wise men wiU produce fools ; who mounts win fall, who falls will mount ; and all the kinds of problems presented to society by the turns of the invisible wheel will remain. [93]