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loving, an experience which later on is gone
through in a tragic way. To the many questions
which are related to heredity and natural
selection, belongs one which notices the
significance of nature’s purpose to cause strong
opposites to exert upon one another the strongest
attraction. This attraction often during
married life changes into antipathy; it almost
results in impatience against the characteristics
which originally had so deep an attraction.
Nature in this case seems to wish to
reach its end with the greatest lack of
consideration for the happiness of the individual.
So often the contradictions of parents seem
really to be moulded in full in the child.
Occasionally these contradictions are expressed
as a deep discord, but in both cases there often
arises an exceptional being. To attain correct
results in this case, belongs to the numerous
still open possibilities.
Differences of opinion are most apparent
in the theory of heredity, where there is a
struggle between Darwin’s view, that even
acquired characteristics are inherited, and
Galton’s and Weissmann’s conviction that this
is not the case. In connection with this
stands, also, the question of the marriage of
consanguineous relations; some regard these
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