Heredity

In daily traveling to and from the city I have been impressed, by bits of conversation dropped near me, with the strong hold which the belief in material heredity has upon mankind.

"How much he resembles his father!" "Is she not the image of her mother?" and not only of trick of form and feature have I heard, but of mental qualities and peculiarities of sin and disease.

"A chip from the old block" often means a very poor "chip."

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