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Excerpt from Heredity This fact, also, is one of constant experience' but our opinion of it is not that it stands to reason, but rather that it is irrational. We incline to think that heredity is the law, variation the accident, or the exception to the law. Strictly speaking, we fancy, there ought to be no such thing as varia tion; but of course it is unreasonable to expect that heredity shall always be perfect, and something or other is doubtless Often apt to mar its accuracy, thus leading to that anomalous (or, in English, lawless) occurrence which we call variation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.