All nature, including human nature, is governed by immutable law.
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All variation of character, physical and mental, takes place in fœtal
life.
To the sensitiveness conferred by nature on the child-bearing woman
is due her superior capacity to improve or degrade the race. To her
_varied_ mental, emotional, and physical conditions during her periods
of gestation are due the widely different characters of the children
born of the same parents.
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Every quality, or its absence, in man or woman is there, or is wanting,
by reason of conditions afforded or withheld for its incarnation
through the parents.
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The compass and tone of each individual is absolutely decided before
birth.
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The faculties _actively used_ by the mother during pregnancy, rather
than those lying latent and part of her original character, will be
found prominent in her offspring.
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Other things being equal, the children of youthful, immature parents
will be inferior to those of the fully developed.
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A marriage may, in itself, be perfect in every respect, yet owing to
violation of natural or spiritual law by the parents, the offspring may
be inferior to either or both.
A marriage may be very imperfect, and the parties to it very imperfect
characters, yet, through the influence of happily elevating conditions
surrounding and, as it were, pressing in on the mother, _the children
will be superior to both parents_.
Education may modify, but never overrule inherited defects.