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those suffering from nervous and other diseases,
or finally with people who are spiritually
maimed. In most cases we are convinced that
the main cause of their condition as indicated
by them, goes back to their birth, or to the
time of their childish consciousness. Sometimes
their parents have been too young or
too old, their fathers or mothers invalids.
Sometimes they are the offspring of intemperance.
Again their mother may have been
overburdened by the torment of work, or by
a large family of children; or they may have
received their life in marriages concluded
without love, or after the cessation of love.
They have been unwelcome, or born under
feelings of revulsion, bearing in their blood
the germ of discord or disgust of life.
Numerous abnormal tendencies, among them
misanthropy in women, can be traced back to
these causes. Finally they have been brought
up in a home where they have suffered from
the burden of bad examples, or conflicting
influences.
So strong has the conviction of the
meaning of heredity become that young
men, who have themselves borne a burden,
imposed by generations of one character
or another, nave begun to see that it is
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