Mind

Abstract

THERE seems to me now to be some prospect of agreement that, since all characters are equally products of nature (potentiality, capacity, predisposition, diathesis) and fitting nurture, all must be equally innate, acquired, germinal, somatic, and inheritable. If that be the case, the problem of inheritance is settled. Doubtless some biologists will continue to discuss such things as the transmission of characters and the intensity of inheritance, but the impossibility of defining their terms and explaining what they mean will always vitiate their labours.