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Our Duty to the Children: 58 total pages.

So we plant in our gardens the seeds of choice varieties of vegetables and fruits, expecting that the peculiar flavor and quality of the parent plants will reappear in their descendants. We also know that if we continue the conditions which have given rise to certain peculiar qualities, those qualities will be developed to greater perfection. The same law holds in the animal kingdom. The gentle ani­mals and the fierce bring forth according to their kind; and special excellencies of parents are perpetuated and increased in their descendants. 5 OUR DUTY TO THE CHILDREN According to the same law of heredity in the human family, each race of men perpetuates its own peculiarities. Closer likenesses are no­ticeable among those of nearer kind. Children inherit from their parents and grandparents peculiarities of feature and of manner, liability to disease of special forms, or aptitude for one kind of work or another. 1This likeness of children to parents extends to things deeper than physical form and manner, to mental traits and to the inmost

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