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tendencies of children, often another form is
taken from that which appears in their parents.
Of three hundred idiots, one hundred and
forty-five had alcoholic parents. Epilepsy,
too, is often produced by the same cause. It
is known that apparently sound individuals
are often attacked at the same age by a
disease to which their parents were subject. On
the other hand, there are fortunately proofs
that individuals endowed with power of will
can resist certain dangerous inherited
weaknesses. In the discussion on this subject, it
should also be justly brought out, that it is
possible for the unsound tendency of one
parent to be neutralised in the case of
children, by the soundness of the other. But
this result, as well as the many other questions
involved, as I have shown above, are far
from being established.
The question as to the inheritance of mental
diseases has been especially examined by
Maudsley. In this case, too, nervous and
psychic diseases of the parents often change
their character in the children. He requires
medical testimony before marriage, and asks
that the appearance of mental diseases after
marriage shall form a legitimate ground for
divorce. And he hopes that a pure descent,
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