CHAPTER XI.

THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS IN HEREDITY.

The duty of the present to future generations.—Darwin on heredity.—Nature inexorable.—The mother’s investment of moulding power.—The father’s important part in the transmission of heredity.—The parents workers together with God.—Parents must reap what they sow.—The law and the gospel of heredity contrasted.—The children of inebriates and others.—Lessons from reformatory institutions.—The outcast Margaret.—The mother of Samson.—How a child became an embodiment of “The Lady of the Lake.”—The woman who desired to be the mother of governors.—Importance of this study, 135-145