proves and illustrates in any required number and variety of cases,
showing that progeny inherits the constitutional natures and characters,
mental and physical, of parents, including pre-dispositions to consumption,
insanity, all sorts of disease, etc., as well as longevity, strength,
stature, looks, disposition, talents,--all that is constitutional. From
what other source do or can they come? Indeed, who can doubt a truth as
palpable as that children inherit some, and if some, therefore all, the
physical and mental nature and constitution of parents, thus becoming
almost their fac-similes?

8. ILLUSTRATIONS.--A whaleman was severely hurt by a harpooned and
desperate whale turning upon the small boat, and, by his monstrous jaws,
smashing it to pieces, one of which, striking him in his right side,
crippled him for life. When sufficiently recovered, he married, according
to previous engagement, and his daughter, born in due time, and closely
resembling him in looks, constitution and character, has a weak and sore
place corresponding in location with that of the injury of her father.
Tubercles have been found in the lungs of infants at birth, born of
consumptive parents,--a proof, clear and demonstrative, that children
inherit the several states of parental physiology existing at the time they
received their physiological constitution. The same is true of the
transmission of those diseases consequent on the violation of the law of
chastity, and the same conclusion established thereby.

9. PARENT'S PARTICIPATION.--Each parent furnishing an indispensable portion
of the materials of life, and somehow or other, contributes parentally to
the formation of the constitutional character of their joint product,
appears far more reasonable, than to ascribe, as many do, the whole to
either, some to paternity, others to maternity. Still this decision go
which way it may, does not affect the great fact that children inherit both
the physiology and the mentality existing in parents at the time they
received being and constitution.

10. ILLEGITIMATES OR BASTARDS also furnish strong proof of the correctness
of this our leading doctrine. They are generally lively, sprightly, witty,
frolicsome, knowing, {225} quick of perception, apt to learn, full of
passion, quick-tempered, impulsive throughout, hasty, indiscreet, given to
excesses, yet abound in good feeling, and are well calculated to enjoy
life, though in general sadly deficient in so