If Ellis were my son, I should feel no particular anxiety about him." "If he were your son," replied Dr.Hillhouse, "I am not so sure about your feeling no concern.

Our personal interest in a thing is apt to give it a new importance.

But you are mistaken as to the breaking of hereditary influences in the second generation.

Often hereditary peculiarities will show themselves in the third and fourth generation.
It is no uncommon thing to see the grandmother's red hair reappear in her granddaughter, though her own child's hair was as black as a raven's wing.

A crooked toe, a wart, a malformation, an epileptic tendency, a swart or fair complexion, may disappear in all the children of a family, and show itself again in the grand-or great-grandchildren.
Mental and moral conditions reappear in like manner.