FOREORDAINED, 
 
 A 
 STORY OF HEREDITY 
 
 AND OF 
 
 SPECIAL PARENTAL INFLUENCES, 
 
 BY 
 A1ST OBSERVER. 
 
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 New York : 
 
 FOWLEB & WELLS CO., 
 
 753 Beoadway. 
 
 1886, 
 
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 1885. 
 
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 DEDICATION. 
 
 TO mothers: 
 
 TO THEM WHO EXERCISE SO MARKED AN INFLUENCE 
 UPON THE FUTURE OF THE RACE, BECAUSE OF THEIR 
 IMMEDIATE IMPRESSIONS UPON THEIR CHILDREN, THIS 
 BRIEF STORY IS DEDICATED IN ALL KINDNESS AND SYM- 
 PATHY, TRUSTING THAT IT MAY BE HELPFUL TO SOME IN 
 RENDERING THEIR VISIONS OF LIFE CLEARER AND MORE 
 PURPOSEFUL, AND THEIR OWN EXISTENCE HAPPIER. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 If he is a benefactor to his race who causes two 
 blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, 
 how much more of a benefactor is he who elevates 
 and improves the race itself ? 
 
 "The fact that our present civilization is a growth 
 through countless generations — the result of constant 
 and cumulative training — seems to indicate that a 
 discovery of the methods and order of this growth, 
 applied as a method of education, would develop in 
 a few generations, and in some instances in a single 
 individual, a mental and physical condition equal to 
 that which has taken countless generations to solve." 
 —"The Jukes," by E. L. Dugdale. 
 
 "How consonant it is to all analogy and experience, 
 to expect that the control of future generations should 
 be as much within the power of the living, as the 
 health and well-being of the individual is in the 
 
PKEFACE. 
 
 power of the guardians of his growth." — "Hereditary 
 Genius," by Francis Galton. 
 
 "I conclude that each generation has enormous 
 power over the natural gifts of those that follow, and 
 maintain that it is a duty we owe to humanity to in- 
 vestigate the range of that power, and to exercise it 
 in a way that, without being unwise towards ourselves, 
 shall be most advantageous to future inhabitants of 
 the earth." — Ibid. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 Fifty years ago, on a stormy night in March, two 
 gentlemen were seated in the elaborately-furnished 
 drawing-room of one of the handsomest houses in 
 the city of C. 
 
 It was easy to see that the speaker was master of 
 the splendor around him. His companion listened 
 with the pre-occupied air of one intent upon pressing 
 duties and anxious to resume them. 
 
 A plain, rugged old man was Doctor Morris, blunt 
 and candid, but his rare smile showed genuine love 
 of humanity. Had you come as a suppliant, — a 
 mother with young children, or a feeble widow — your 
 first appeal for aid would have been to the plainly- 
 dressed old man, not to the millionaire. 
 
 Intent upon the subject that interested him deeply, 
 Mr. Hopelands continued his speech, unmindful or 
 unconscious of Doctor Morris' air of pre-occupation. 
 
 "You see, doctor," he said, "that mine is a noble 
 ambition — to found a family! How much greater 
 than merely to found an empire ! Romulus and 
 
8 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 Rome ! The one is now a myth for school-boys, and 
 the other a city of effeminative priests. Ninevah, the 
 greatest city of ancient times, a city that would be 
 thought wonderful in our day — fifty -five miles in cir- 
 cumference ! (Paris is only twenty-three, you know). 
 Yet for hundreds of years even its site could not be 
 ascertained. "What honor now remains to Nimrod 
 for all his labors ? A few rare sculptures in the 
 British Museum alone attest the existence of what 
 was once the greatest city on earth and capital of its 
 proudest kingdom. 
 
 "Babylon — 'the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency,' 
 'the lady of kingdoms,' — is a heap of ruins, and 
 Babylonia ' a desolation among nations.' It matters 
 nothing now what in it was the work of Belus or of 
 Nebuchadnezzar — all is utterly destroyed. 
 
 "Look now at the enduring results of Abraham's 
 life — he founded a family ! Where are his descend- 
 ants not found ? Truly they are like the stars in mul- 
 titude, and how like him in character! The same 
 faith that led Abraham to forsake country and friends 
 and hold on to Canaan when he .owned only a bury- 
 ing-place in it, continually wandering up and down, 
 yet resting always in the promise that it should all 
 belong to his children ; see how it is reproduced in 
 the Jews — clinging to a promise made nearly four 
 thousand years ago — bound together and kept separ- 
 
FOREORDAINED. 9 
 
 ate from the rest of the world by their inherited obsti- 
 nacy, or faith — children of Abraham to this day. 
 
 "I hold that a man with any inherited gifts" (and 
 here Mr. Hopelands drew himself up and glanced at 
 a large mirror) "should aim to increase and perpetuate 
 them for the benefit of mankind. 
 
 "Some men are content to accumulate a fortune, to 
 produce a new invention, to expound a doctrine, to 
 defend a theory ; for myself — and you must aid me, 
 doctor, in this — I think I have chosen the highest 
 object in life." 
 
 "Ahem !" said the doctor, non-committally. "But 
 my dear sir, you don't propose to found a family 
 alone ?" 
 
 "There is where I need your aid, of course, for all 
 the future, but now I depend upon you especially. I 
 have neither your skill in diagnosis, nor your oppor- 
 tunities for observation. I want you to select, from 
 among those you have known well for years, the 
 young lady who will best suit my great object." 
 
 " The objects of men in marriage differ so widely 
 that I must trouble you to give me an exact list of 
 your requirements." 
 
 " Well, in the first place, there must be no inherited 
 taint — none in the family, in fact, since taints and 
 traits descend indirectly. She must have a large, fine 
 figure, a handsome, intelligent face ; an excellent, 
 
10 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 natural disposition, cheerful, amiable, and easily 
 guided. She must have ability to control and direct 
 a household — children and servants ; style enough to 
 entertain my guests, and sufficient knowledge of hu- 
 man nature, obtained through phrenological and phy- 
 siological studies, to train and form the manners of 
 my children ; yet she must entertain no strong desire 
 or need for general society ; as your Bible says wo- 
 men should be keepers at home. 
 
 " And that reminds me that she must not be what is 
 called a religious woman. I go to church myself oc- 
 casionally ; indeed, I own a pew in St. John's, but 
 that answers well enough for Sundays ; to have re- 
 ligion paraded before me all the week, in my own 
 home, would be unendurable." 
 
 " Do you stipulate for morality, too ?" asked the 
 doctor, quietly. 
 
 "Morality ! that is understood of course ! What do 
 you mean, doctor ?" 
 
 " Simply that you want your wife to obey the Bible 
 and possess all the Christian graces — without Chris- 
 tianity," was the answer. 
 
 " You mistake me widely, doctor. I believe in 
 Christianity as the foundation of our government, 
 and as a restraint for the masses. I know nothing 
 better ; but religion that is to control and intermed- 
 
FOKEOKDAINED. 11 
 
 die with my private life is priestly impertinence, such 
 as I will not tolerate in my family." 
 
 "I will not attempt to argue the point, because it 
 would be worse than useless ; you are following 3 r our 
 wish, not your judgment. But all the excellencies 
 that have made my Mary the blessing of my own life 
 are the outgrowth of heart-felt religion ; all that sus- 
 tains me under hard daily toil, and rasping trials is 
 religion ; and all the reward I get or hope for is 
 through faith in God. But I will think over your 
 wishes, and look around for your paragon. Now, I 
 must be off." 
 
 Mr. Hopelands accompanied his friend to the door, 
 and then returned and paced the spacious room slow- 
 ly and thoughtfully, gradually straightening his fine 
 figure untill he stood erect before the long mirror. 
 Six feet four almost, massive in form, yet agile and 
 strong, hair and eyes like night ; a clear sun-browned 
 skin, a narrow but high forehead ; massive, firm set 
 jaws, and lips always closed and compressed ; nose 
 almost Grecian ; ears, hands and feet small enough 
 to be noticeable on so grand a form, marked his patri- 
 cian descent. The eyes were brilliant, yet deep set 
 and rather close. If a physiognomist might have 
 found fault with any part of the image in the mirror, 
 assuredly Mr. Hopeland did not ; his faith in him- 
 self and in his star was unbounded and during the 
 
12 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 evening he paced the floor exultant, excited over the 
 air-castles that rose at his command. 
 
 "Alexander conquered the world in his youth," he 
 said aloud, "A man has but to be true to his purpose, 
 and all things bend before him. I am ; I have all 
 that I could desire ; I will be ; will do all that I will. 
 Will is omnipotent." 
 
 Doctor Morris drove through the storm to a small 
 house on a quiet street, where the door was opened as 
 his foot touched the sidewalk. "I am so thankful. 
 Please come at once." Without a word the doctor 
 followed the young girl to the room where a pale 
 woman lay gasping for breath, a blood-stained hand- 
 kerchief beside her. 
 
 "How long ?" asked the doctor. 
 
 'Tor the last hour," she answered, as she showed 
 him two other handkerchiefs soaked with the scarlet 
 fluid. 
 
 The doctor added a few drops of medicine to a 
 glass of water on the table and gave the sufferer a 
 spoonful, gently placed another pillow to lift her 
 higher ; directed that a bottle of hot water should be 
 put to the cold feet ; warmed in his own the small, 
 cold hands and then sat quietly down. Gradually 
 the patient's breathing became easier until the ex- 
 hausted woman slept. Then the doctor went down 
 stairs into the hall and the daughter followed him. 
 
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 "Have you no one in the house but your aunt ?" he 
 asked. 
 
 But at that moment came a tap at the door, and a 
 young man with a frank, kindly face entered. 
 
 "Ah, Mr. McDonald ! that is well. I want some 
 man to be in the house to-night, so that if there is 
 any return of hemorrhage he may come for me. Can 
 you stay ?" 
 
 "Certainly ; it will be a pleasure to do anything in 
 my power." 
 
 "Well, do not undress, just lie upon the sofa in the 
 parlor, ready to come at once." 
 
 Then he turned to the young lady : 
 
 "Do not be anxious, my child ; give the medicine 
 every half hour, if your mother is awake ; keep the 
 feet warm, let everything be perfectly quiet ; she may 
 sleep the night through. Of course you or your aunt 
 will watch beside her." 
 
 As soon as the doctor went, the young man took in 
 his own the trembling hands, drew the slight form to 
 him for a moment and kissed her forehead ; then 
 said, pityingly, "Now, my little one, I will watch 
 here," and she hurried back to her post at the bed- 
 side of the invalid. 
 
 Only until midnight was the house quiet. Sleep 
 had strengthened the mother for the last conflict, and 
 it was short. The final triumph over suffering and 
 
14 A STOEY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 death was soon won ; but to the daughter it seemed 
 only loss, defeat, utter ruin. Father, home, property 
 had been lost long ago, and she had borne up bravely 
 but now her all was taken from her ; life seemed des- 
 olate and hopeless, and she would not be comforted. 
 While the suffering mother was still sleeping Doctor 
 Morris went to a large house on a fashionable street, 
 and was shown into the r oom of a young man, when 
 a professional nurse rose instantly to report. 
 
 " There has been no return of violence, sir. I have 
 kept the bladder of ice on the head, and he seemed to 
 sleep at times." 
 
 " Good, go on so ; give a little gruel if he rouses 
 up." 
 
 The young man opened his eyes and said, "Doctor, 
 brandy ! " 
 
 "Never, " said the doctor, decidedly, " not a drop. 
 I've had hard work to save you, but one drop of that 
 stuff would undo my work. " He descended to the 
 parlor, rang the bell and asked for Mr. Highbridge. 
 " Your son is doing very well, " he said, " but do 
 you know whether Brown is perfectly trustworthy ? 
 " Oh yes, I think so, except with the sideboard, " 
 and Mr. Highbridge laughed jovially. 
 
 " Stay up stairs with your son then, or have your 
 wife or one of the young ladies stay until another 
 nurse comes. I will send a reliable woman at once, 
 
FOREORDAINED. 
 
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 and your waiter must assist her in the care of your 
 son, " said the doctor. 
 
 " But, my dear sir, why not keep Brown ? he is a 
 very civil fellow and seems to understond his busi- 
 ness. " 
 
 " You have yourself answered the question. You 
 acknowledge that he is not to be trusted. No liquor 
 must be near your son, even the breath of a wine 
 drinker will excite this fearful appetite. You your- 
 self must not take wine and then go to him. If 
 you would save him you must not only keep all 
 liquor from him now, but must at any cost of effort 
 and self-denial, break his chains. He has been bound 
 too long to free himself ; his appetite has become a 
 fierce tyrant, his power of self-control is gone. You, 
 his father, to whom God has given the responsibility 
 must do your utmost to undo the work of years. " 
 
 "Don't you think that you are a little hard, doctor? 
 So many young fellows have these attacks and then 
 learn to drink moderately. " 
 
 " You had best call in some physician in whom you 
 have confidence ; but I am anxious that you should 
 save Willis. Yes, young men with no inherited fond- 
 ness for liquor may learn self control ; but recollect 
 that Willis inherits from his grandfather a diminshed 
 brain, and will-power ; as well as a fierce appetite. 
 Your father lived to mid-life because he inherited no 
 
16 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 weakness, yet he died from brain troubles induced by 
 liquor. By a natural law of heredity, this form of 
 mania passed over you and descended to your son. 
 It is my duty to tell you that in his case another at- 
 tack would end in the grave or in an insane ayylum. " 
 
 The florid gentleman was pale now, and profuse in 
 apologies and promises. 
 
 A woman who had watched her husband under such 
 attacks until she was almost glad to lay him in the 
 quiet grave, took Brown's place by the bedside, and 
 nursed him with a devotion born of pity for the suf- 
 fering she so well understood. As "Willis recovered, 
 gratitude and confidence endeared her to them, and 
 the feeling that she would watch over Willis made 
 her presence invaluable to the father and mother. 
 To the end of her life Mrs. Wood remained in their 
 home, at first as housekeeper and then as a valued 
 friend. 
 
 But it was a long, hard struggle for weeks. Nature 
 had been so long outraged that all stamina, all power 
 of healthy reaction seemed gone. Not even strength 
 of will and purpose were left, to uplift and energize 
 the weak, tortured body. We who^stand often by such 
 sick-beds know that demonical possession was not re- 
 stricted to the time of Christ's earthly mission. That 
 often while the devil rends his victims sorely the 
 physician can only stand powerless, praying that the 
 
FOKEOKDAINED. 17 
 
 Divine power may speak as of old — " Come out of 
 liim, thou foul spirit and torment him not." 
 
 At last Willis Highbridge was able to ride out and 
 in time to call upon his young lady friends ; who all 
 thought him so pale and interesting ; but it was so 
 strange that he would not even taste wine, when he 
 used to be fond of it, and now needed it so much. 
 
 One young lady, a Southerner and an orphan, had 
 flirted with Willis through the season's gayeties, but 
 now his pallor, his feebleness, his subdued tone and 
 manners touched her, and she surrendered impetu- 
 ously. 
 
 The man who had wrecked his own life, who was 
 powerless to control his own animal passions, went 
 out from her home with the happiness and the eternal 
 future of an innocent, loving girl in his weak, unholy 
 hands. 
 
 She was building her nest very low. . 
 
CHAPTEK II. 
 
 Six months from the night we first met Mr. Hope- 
 lands, on a lovely evening in May, St. John's church 
 was crowded with beauty and aristocracy to witness 
 his marriage to a lady as handsome and stately 
 as himself. The finest-looking couple — every one 
 said — that St. John's had ever seen. The same eve- 
 ning St. Paul's witnessed the marriage of Willis High- 
 bridge to a pretty, slender girl, whose sweet face 
 shone with love and trust as she left it, leaning 
 on his arm. Back in the crowded church two young 
 people, strangers to the fashionable throng, watched 
 the ceremony with interest 
 
 The young girl, whose mother's death had left her 
 homeless and almost penniless, had been glad to yield 
 to the urgent entreaties of her old school-mate who 
 came to her in her sorrow, with the sympathy that 
 only an orphan like herself could give ; and who 
 needed a friend as much as Annie needed a home ? 
 (18) 
 
FOREORDAINED. 19 
 
 In the preparations for the wedding her taste and 
 skill had been invaluable, and the money thus earned 
 was to furnish Annie's own home, on which Mr. Mc- 
 Donald had just made the last payment. 
 
 The two wealthy brides had grand receptions and 
 then went abroad, while Annie and Mr. McDonald 
 bought their simple furniture, arranged it in their 
 small house ; and then, after the usual Wednesday 
 night prayer meeting in the little mission church to 
 which they belonged, were married and went quietly 
 their own home, to begin life as they hoped to con- 
 tinue it — together. 
 
 * * # * * * * * * 
 
 Early in September the travellers returned, and each 
 summoned Doctor Morris. 
 
 "I think you will find us in good condition, doctor, 
 and Mrs. Hopelands certainly does credit to my 
 care," said her husband. " But I would like you to 
 give her some advice in her new condition. I pre- 
 sume it is not too early to begin care and regimen ?" 
 
 "By no means. You have hit upon my favorite 
 theory. It has been for years my dream that, when 
 old or disabled for active work, I would write a book 
 on pre-natal influences. The subject is so full of in- 
 terest that almost unconsciously I have accumulated 
 a mass of facts. Trifles, that otherwise I might have 
 
20 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 overlooked, have been found to be real data, and they 
 crystallized into theory. 
 
 "I see some new paintings that look as though you 
 were trying the old Grecian plan to produce beauty. 
 This copy of Murillo's ' Immaculate Conception ' is a 
 real gem. Old as I am, those babies are a constant l 
 delight to me ; while the blended awe and trust in 
 Mary's face and her very attitude seem to repeat, 
 'Behold the handmaid of the Lord ; be it unto me 
 according to thy word !' " 
 
 "Yes, doctor, and here is a fine engraving of the 
 Apollo Belvidere ; notice this marble Cupid ! I al- 
 lowed Mrs. Hopelands to see only the beautiful and 
 grand ; she lived among them ; everything painful or 
 degrading, everything sad, even, has been kept from 
 her with scrupulous care ; rest assured, she did not 
 see Laocoon, nor Orestes and the furies. Now about 
 her habits, her food and exercise ; we need your ex- 
 perience." 
 
 "It has not seemed to me best to make any decided 
 change in habits, unless they are far wrong," replied 
 the doctor. "Mrs. Hopelands needs regular exercise 
 and occupation, but they should be cheerful and not 
 severe ; she must never be overtasked either in mind 
 or body. For food — what usually agrees best with 
 her, avoiding, however, all rich, highly-seasoned 
 food ; not too much meat, better but once a day, and 
 
FOEEOEDAINED. 21 
 
 then at lunch rather than at night. No hot dinners 
 at night for her now, plenty of fruit morning and 
 at noon, no pastry, nor rich cake. Above all things 
 else, never a drop of wine or stimulant, ginger tonic, 
 nor anything else with liquor in it, — the taste descends 
 directly to the child. 
 
 "We wonder at the army of drunkards around us— 
 marching steadily down to eternal death ; we forget 
 that until within a few years doctors ordered tonics 
 with wine or brandy while the mother was carrying her 
 child, and regular rations of beer when nursing. 
 
 " It rests in great degree with our mothers to arrest 
 this fearful and growing evil. Yet it requires won- 
 derful strength of character to abstain altogether 
 from it. The tax upon their weakened energies is so 
 great, they feel so faint, so spiritless, that we cannot 
 estimate the temptation to them to find strength for 
 pressing duties in stimulants. But far better that a 
 woman should break down and die under her burden 
 ' than that she should become the mother of a drunk- 
 ard ! I would prefer having Mrs. Hopelands use but 
 little or no tea or coffee at present, but probably that 
 is asking too much." 
 
 "Indeed it is, doctor," exclaimed the lady. "Why 
 I love to eat, and now especially I am hungry all the 
 time. I have been eating twice as much as usual ; my 
 
22 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 maid is an old, experienced nurse and she says that 
 I must eat for two !" 
 
 "A great mistake ! You want your child to be 
 healthy and vigorous, and, therefore, will not feed it 
 on spices and sweets ; but you want it also to be not 
 overgrown ; you want to carry your burden without 
 much difficulty, and bring it forth with as little suffer- 
 ing and danger as possible," replied the doctor. "A 
 large body is not necessarily stronger than a smaller 
 one. Recollect that Lyman Beecher, that old war- 
 horse of temperance and Bible truth, was laid aside 
 at birth as too puny to live ; that after some hours of 
 anxiety for the mother, a woman, happening to be at 
 leisure, washed and dressed him for the grave. When 
 he persisted in living they placed him in a quart cup 
 to measure him, as we weigh babies now. 'It is a 
 pity he didn't die,' they said ; yet for nearly eighty- 
 eight years he lived to show how great oaks from 
 little acorns grow. 
 
 "He has been a wonderful power for good and left 
 his impress on tne world, ineffaceable, progressive ; 
 this too, spite of the food that made him a dyspeptic, 
 and gave many years of gloom to a spirit naturally 
 joyous as sunshine. He was brought up by an uncle, 
 and afterwards described their bill of fare — for an ac- 
 tive, growing boy! 
 
 " 'Our living was very good. Rye bread, fresh but- 
 
FOEEOEDAINED. 23 
 
 ter, buckwheat cakes and pie for breakfast. We 
 dined on salt pork, vegetables, and pies. "We made a 
 stock of pies at Thanksgiving, froze them for winter's 
 use, and they lasted till March.' 
 
 "When he was suffering from heart-burn after eat- 
 ing pies, his aunt would say, 'Lyman, go into the 
 milk room and get a piece of cake, you don't look 
 well!' It was a story in those parts that when, years 
 after, the old house was taken down, a lost pie was 
 found under the pantry floor — the earthern pie-dish 
 all decayed, but the pie-crust in perfect preservation. 
 Through all this the wonderful vitality inherited from 
 his father (and from a long line of virtuous, hard- 
 working ancestors) preserved him." 
 
 "You remember, doctor, that Napoleon Bonaparte 
 owed his wonderful energy to his mother's incessant 
 activity — riding, to the very last, on horseback beside 
 her husband," said Mr. Hopelands. 
 
 "Yes, that is warning enough," growled the doctor; 
 " fortunately nature gives women a disinclination to 
 violent exercise then, so that such monsters are rare. 
 Mrs. Hopelands, I would advise regular exercise in 
 the open air ; walking is better than riding, as long as 
 you feel able to walk, but I would have you ride daily, 
 no matter what may be the weather or your feelings, 
 and continue this even to the last ; some of the easiest 
 labors I have known began in the carriage. Always 
 
24 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 go to rest early, keep regular hours and take plenty 
 of sleep. But the most important factor in any hu- 
 man being is the soul. Let the mother cultivate 
 every pure, spiritual growth she would wish to have 
 reproduced in her child, — love, faith, gentleness, un- 
 selfiness, patience ! It is a hard task — the world, the 
 flesh and the devil will all oppose her ; but the great 
 Father will be on her side, and 'One with God is a 
 majority.' Yes, I believe that the forming soul is in 
 the mother's hands ; they need to be often lifted 
 heavenward." 
 
 "When did you turn priest, Doctor Morris ?" de- 
 manded Mr. Hopelands. "I have great confidence in 
 your judgment, not much in your theories. The 
 mother gives only physical form to the child ; the 
 mind and soul come from the father. We will drop 
 these items, if you please, from your consideration of 
 the case ; they will content me as they are." 
 
 The good doctor had forgotten to whom he was 
 speaking ; his last words had been uttered almost 
 unconsciously. Now he raised his head and looked 
 steadily at the pompous, self-satisfied man. 
 
 "I had forgotten that you wished to eliminate God 
 from your calculation. Well, I have told you the 
 truth ; you can accept or reject it as you choose. I 
 shall watch with interest your experiment. It would 
 be an eminently wise one if you had not dropped 
 
FOBEOKDAINED. 25 
 
 from it 'the beginning of wisdom.' For your sakes, 
 and for your children, I hope it may prosper. Often 
 we build better than we know." 
 
 "Believe me, doctor, I did not mean to displease 
 you ; it is only that our theories differ." 
 
 "Necessarily, as they start from different premises," 
 answered the doctor. 
 
 "And you will see Mrs. Hopelands once a week, 
 regularly ?" 
 
 "Certainly, if you wish it." 
 
 "Decidedly, I do," said Mr. Hopelands, emphatical- 
 ly ; "there is no one in whose skill I place so much 
 confidence, and this is the great object of my life." 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 The doctor's next visit was at the Highbridge 
 mansion. The parents had persuaded the young 
 wife to make her home with them, as the daughters 
 were going abroad to school. Their real motive was 
 fear to trust their son beyond their sight and care. 
 Amiable, easy -tempered people, fond of good living 
 and pleasure, they made her a cheerful home, and 
 she had already begun to realize that her husband 
 was too selfish to exert himself in any way for her 
 happiness. Only fear of the consequences to himself 
 controlled his desire for stimulants. 
 
 But the father had really heeded Doctor Morris' 
 warning ; wine was no longer placed on table or side- 
 board. His own dressing-room was the only place 
 where he indulged himself, and there his son never 
 went. 
 
 The doctor found young Mrs. Highbridge thin and 
 pale ; she had suffered much from nausea and sleep- 
 (26) 
 
FOREORDAINED. 27 
 
 lessness, and now was nervous and irritable in the ex- 
 treme. 
 
 When the doctor urged her to go out and try to in- 
 terest herself in external objects, she declared that 
 she could not leave her sofa, that she knew she 
 would never get well, and had no desire to do so, as 
 she had nothing to live for. 
 
 "Can't you give her some tonic, doctor ?" asked the 
 mother. 
 
 "Yes, I will give her— Mrs. McDonald." 
 
 Like a fresh breeze the happy young wife came 
 into the dull, hopeless life of her friend. At her en- 
 treaty Mrs. Highbridge rode out, at first leaning lan- 
 guidly back against the cushions of the easy carriage. 
 Soon the bright remarks of her friend drew her atten- 
 tion to the incidents and people on their way ; and 
 before a week had passed she was persuaded to leave 
 the carnage in the park and explore some woodland 
 path. In a few weeks they drove themselves in 
 the pony phaeton, seeking out every spot of interest 
 around the city, and appetite and color came back to 
 the invalid. Sometimes she spent a day at the small 
 house, its simple arrangements and the ease with 
 which Annie McDonald prepared their meals, and 
 then restored everything to its usual nice order, were 
 a constant pleasure to her. It seemed like going 
 back to childhood's doll-parties. She had always a 
 
28 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 dreamy feeling that at the close of the day the old 
 nurse would appear and take her home to her father 
 and mother, to be again their petted darling. 
 
 So those days were to her life, like the warm, sunny 
 ones that come to us occasionally in mid-winter, 
 breathing of spring and awakening hope in the sad 
 heart. Yes, the doctor's prescription had been as 
 wise as Solomon's — "A merry heart doeth good like a 
 medicine." 
 
 "Annie," said Cora, one day when they were alone, 
 busily sewing at the same little work ; "I like to buy 
 and make these pretty things ; I would even like to 
 have a baby to love, though it must be no end 
 of care, but I dread so the terrible time we must pass 
 through. Think of carrying a load that grows 
 heavier every day, that steals away all your life and 
 vigor, that makes you nervous and cross with every- 
 body, that makes you ashamed to meet old friends, 
 ashamed even to have a stranger glance at you, or to 
 look at yourself in the mirror. Willis says I look 
 like a slouch ; is it my fault ? I can't breathe if my 
 clothes are at all tight. When mother has invited 
 guests I am obliged to make one of my Paris dresses 
 meet ; so I draw my corsets tight until my face is 
 flushed and haggard. I go down-stairs and try 
 to talk, but I cannot eat. I grow dizzy and faint, and 
 then sick ; I must slip off ignominiously ; (everyone 
 
FOKEOKDAINED. 29 
 
 knows why). My only relief is in a loose wrapper 
 and complete rest. Now your dresses are not tight, 
 but they look neat and yet do not show yonr figure 
 as mine all do." 
 
 "I have altered them all under the arms," said 
 Annie, laughingly, "every two or three weeks. I 
 must do this. Later I shall wear shirred dresses, or 
 skirts and sacques that can be worn loose, or belted 
 in — the belt to be adjustable. Frank is so perfectly 
 happy that I am determined to be as happy, too, as I 
 can, and not mind little disagreeables." 
 
 "Little ! when your corsets feel like iron, and you 
 can neither sit nor lie down with any comfort ?" 
 
 "My dear, I do not wear any. I have made under- 
 waists with seams that I can let out ; my one under- 
 skirt and dress-skirt are both buttoned to this, so 
 that I do not suffer as much from back-ache and op- 
 pression as I did while the weight of my skirts rested 
 on the waist. My dear aunt taught me this." 
 
 "That is sensible ! A loose wrapper is very little 
 relief when you have corset bones pressing into such 
 sensitive parts." 
 
 "There are many forms of skirt supporters offered 
 for sale, I tried one or two, but found none equal to 
 auntie's old-fashioned plan of waists. On all my 
 skirts I have put long bands, or yokes, with little 
 plaits laid in them, that I let out as they become too 
 
30 A STOBY OF HEEEDITY. 
 
 tight ; originally, they were a yard long, but plaits on 
 each side of the front button-holes, and just back of 
 the side button-holes, make them fit. See, there is a 
 button-hole in front, one on each side and one at the 
 back, and strong buttons on the under-waists. Some 
 people prefer safety-pins, but I find buttons easier to 
 manage. We have the same good doctor ; probably 
 he told you, as he did me, that we must not eat rich 
 food, keep late hours, or have any excitement. 
 Frank is very careful not to let me lift anything 
 heavy. He is always up first, kindles the fire in my , 
 cook-stove, carries out the ashes and sweeps porch 
 and pavement. All the coal and water he carries. 
 But, best of all, he is always cheerful and kind. 
 You see, dear Cora, it is not of ourselves that we 
 need to think most. I have read about the formation 
 of the mind and body, and my great care is that the 
 dear little child, that we hope will be the joy of our 
 home, may be all that we could wish it to be, for our 
 sakes, for the good it may do, and for its eternal future. 
 Every day I pray for gentleness and patience and 
 sweetness, for the dear baby's sake. I try earnestly 
 to be happy and keep cheerfully busy, so that I shall 
 have no time to brood over bad feelings or to antici- 
 pate trouble. I have not read a single novel, they 
 are too exciting ; but I have read much in the books 
 of those grand thinkers, George and Andrew Combe, 
 
FOKEOKDAINED. 31 
 
 and now I am reading * Tyler's Universal History.' 
 I like books full of information. Coleridge, Cowper, 
 aud Wadsworth soothe me when I feel restless. I 
 had scarcely read any thing- of theirs since I was re- 
 quired to read them aloud evenings to the collected 
 little ones and mother. They used to seem to me 
 dull ; now I like quiet things. Frank reads to me 
 every evening while I sew, or rest on the lounge ; he 
 even stays with me from prayer-meeting when I am 
 too tired to go. He is anxious that I should be always 
 cheerful, so that baby may have a bright, sunny dis- 
 position. That is a greater blessing even than health ; 
 and vigorous, buoyant health seems to stand at the 
 top of all earthly blessings, certainly far above wealth, 
 or any merely material good. " Indeed it does I " ex- 
 claimed Cora; " what would I not give to be full of 
 life and elasticity, as I was a year ago ? to walk 
 with the springy, bounding step that made exercise 
 an invigorating pleasure ? to eat with the relish of ap- 
 petite, to sleep the long, dreamless peaceful sleep of 
 girlhood ? Now exercise is painful, food distasteful, 
 and often I am ' full of tossings to and fro until the 
 dawning' — I found that in one of David's psalms 
 last Sabbath,and it afforded a little comfort to know 
 that he had suffered from wearisome nights." 
 
 " Did you ever read the life of Rev. Robert Hall ?" 
 asked Annie. " He was always sunshiny, full of life 
 
32 A STOKY OF HEKEDITY. 
 
 and energy, and constantly busy, except when in in- 
 tense pain from life-long spinal trouble. Often he^ 
 was obliged to lie on the carpet to write his books 
 and sermons ; the pain in his back compelled him to 
 move constantly from side to side, so that only the 
 floor gave him room enough, yet his brave spirit kept 
 him useful and happy to old age. Friends and 
 strangers alike wondered at his cheerfulness, for he 
 always carried sunshine with him. Such lives make 
 me strong to bear my own little pains. Frank takes 
 great care to select from the library such books as will 
 help me — bright, sunny ones, none with exciting in- 
 cidents or gloomy views of life. Always a hymn of 
 trust or praise and a pslsm read by Frank, closes the 
 pleasant evening ; and I sleep — yes, always, for if 
 restless at first Frank strokes my forehead slowly — 
 mesmeric passes you know — until I fall asleep." 
 
 Mrs. Highbridge sighed ; " yes, you are very 
 happy, Annie " she said. 
 
 " But, dear Cora, you could not be happy so, this 
 little home-work would be a burden to you, and you 
 would miss the luxuries to which you are accustomed ; 
 believe me it is far better as it is. Frank waits on me 
 because his own mother was poor and in delicate 
 health, and he learned home-work that he might as- 
 sist her. When we have made our fortune we will 
 hire servants as Mr. Highbridge does." 
 
F0KE0KDAINED. 33 
 
 " But you can't go on so ! Soon you will not feel 
 able to go about your house," said Cora. 
 
 " I have an excellent nurse engaged, an old friend 
 who will help Frank with the work, as well as take 
 care of me. She will stay with me until I am strong 
 again. Indeed, it is better for me to have this light 
 work ; it keeps my mind pleasantly occupied and gives 
 me gentle exercise. Where a mother lies constantly 
 on the sofa, or indulges in indolence, her child is 
 likely to be feeble as well as indolent. Ask Mother 
 Highbridge and your husband to help you to be cheer- 
 ful, to go with you for execise, to help you watch 
 over your health ; they may not have thought of it, so 
 many good and kind people never do. It is difficult 
 to put yourself in the place of another so as to realizo 
 her wants, especially so for a man to understand a 
 woman's ntaure and constitution. 
 
 " Besides these are modern ideas. Doctor Morris 
 is an advanced thinker, and my husband likes his 
 theories. Get the doctor to tell them to Mr. High- 
 bridge." 
 
 "Why should I ? " answered Cora fretfully; " it would 
 be useless ; he will take no interest in such troubles." 
 
 " Please, Cora, dear," said Annie, " don't sew that 
 lace on. the little cambric skirt, it has entirely too 
 much figure ; you can't imagine how creepy it would 
 feel to a delicate baby skin. Indeed, you will be 
 
34 A STOEY OF HEEEDITY. 
 
 shocked, but I wouldn't put a bit of trimming on any- 
 thing that comes next to the skin ; half the fretting of 
 children is caused by it and pins. I'll have no pins, 
 just strings to the little bands and skirts. See these 
 nice baricoats fastened the same way." 
 
 " What soft, lovely flannel ; but that is not very 
 economical," said Cora. 
 
 " I think it the best economy," returned the other, 
 "because it washes best; besides the touch will be 
 soothing, not irritating, to the rose-leaf skin. See 
 what a nice dressing-basket I have — large and flat, 
 so as not to upset under any provocation." 
 
 " Just what I shall need ! " exclaimed Cora ; "but 
 didn't you dislike to ask for it ? " 
 
 " No, I have bought all that I shall need, because 
 after awhile, when my form has changed I might be 
 ashamed to ask for such things, now I feel and act as 
 though I were buying for some one else. I shall line 
 this basket with pink French cambric, because it 
 washes so well. It will have pockets at the sides and 
 both sewed fast to the lining at the bottom, so that it 
 will be easy to take it off and wash it ; the bottom is 
 quilted on muslin and thin wadding, so that no pins 
 can slip through. Then I make a pincushion of 
 curled hair and fill it with pins large and small, 
 especially half a dozen of nurse and bandage pins, 
 about three inches long. In the pockets I shall put 
 
FOREORDAINED. 35 
 
 safety pins large and small, sharp scissors without 
 points, soft cord or braid, old linen handkerchiefs and 
 fine soap ; baby-brush and comb, wash-rags and soft 
 sponge. In the basket itself will be powder-box, 
 with puff-ball, and the first suit — shirt, band, baricoat, 
 little night dress and b aby -blanket ; a few soft 
 napkins and table-cloth of old linen that auntie has 
 given me, and about a yard of Canton flannel to wrap 
 baby in before it is washed and dressed. 
 
 "Auntie told me to select soft diaper for baby, to 
 hem it months beforehand, and use it for towels so 
 that it might be very soft. She said that a lovely 
 friend of hers had no rest with her first baby ; her 
 doctor tried in vain to cure its terrible chafing ; as 
 soon as she took it she saw that all the trouble lay in 
 the stiff napkin." 
 
 "Well, I never could remember half you have told 
 me," said Cora ; "you must show me the basket after 
 you have finished it." 
 
 "Wouldn't it be better to take the large carriage to- 
 morrow and get your basket, trimmings and con- 
 tents ?" said Annie. "I can go with you then, as 
 Frank will be away from town on business. If you 
 wish I will go home with you, and we can easily line 
 and fill it in the afternoon. Have you much of your 
 shopping done ?" 
 
 "Not half. I have hated to do it," said Cora, 
 
36 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 "Then ask Mother Highbridge to help you make 
 out a list and go with us to-morrow ; she will take 
 more interest in your work, and in your sufferings, 
 too, if she helps you. Talk to her freely, Cora dear, 
 and remember that it will be her first grandchild, and 
 a source of great pride and pleasure to them both. 
 Assume this at once, and lean upon her kindness. It 
 will be as good for her as for you. Now that your 
 sisters are abroad, she has a great deal of leisure 
 that she will be happier to spend on you, for Mrs. 
 Wood relieves her entirely of the housekeeping. She 
 is motherly and warm-hearted ; do not hesitate to tell 
 her every ache and pain, and let her comfort you. 
 "We women are so dependent upon affection ! Often 
 sympathy lifts half the burden that without it seemed 
 unendurable." 
 
 In the purchase and arrangement of the pretty 
 things, the sad young wife began to realize that her 
 cloud had a silver lining. Mother Highbridge bought, 
 with pride and pleasure, a handsome chiffonier for the 
 young wife's sitting-room ; and as the dainty gar- 
 ments accumulated in it, she spent hours in folding 
 and placing them, taking up bright little sacques and 
 socks, and dreaming of the time when a tiny form 
 should fill them. So by degrees she came to think 
 less of her own uncomfortable feelings, and more of 
 the treasure that was to be hers some day. 
 
CHAPTER IY. 
 
 "Abe you not allowing Mrs. Hopelands to exert 
 herself too much ?" asked Doctor Morris, as he met 
 the lady hanging on her husband's arm, heayy-eyed 
 and listless, at a crowded exposition. 
 
 "We are only studying the art-gallery, doctor, and 
 the floral display," replied that gentleman. "See 
 this exquisite figure ; we have looked at it for nearly 
 an hour." 
 
 "The exquisite figure before me interests me far 
 more," said the doctor. "Take her home, my friend, 
 and let her rest ; she looks utterly exhausted." 
 
 A grateful smile thanked him. "I'm dead-tired, 
 doctor," she half-moaned. 
 
 "Yes, let her have a long, quiet sleep ; she needs 
 it." 
 
 "I feel as though I could sleep forever," said the 
 lady. 
 
 "Yes," interrupted Mr. Hopelands, in a vexed tone; 
 (37) 
 
38 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 "nothing rouses her ambition. She used to have life-, 
 enough, but has become a perfect clod." 
 
 "Is your carriage at the door ?" asked the doctor. 
 "I will go to it with you." 
 
 "No, I insisted upon her walking ; she has become 
 so averse to taking any exercise." 
 
 "Wisely so, just now," answered the doctor; "I 
 will stay with her while you get a carriage, or you 
 can take her home in the stage that passes the door. 
 Let her have a long, quiet sleep. Do not let her be 
 awakened on any account, and I will call this eve- 
 ning. I must see her after she has rested, to know 
 whether this unusual depression is entirely the result 
 of fatigue." 
 
 "Have you forgotten the analogy of nature's growth 
 to the growth of human life ?" asked the doctor 
 of Mr. Hopelands that evening, after careful ques- 
 tioning had satisfied him that the harm to his patient 
 was only incipient. "Winter is a time of eternal rest, 
 earth is dormant because preparing for the luxuriance 
 of spring. While gentle exercise is beneficial to Mrs. 
 Hopelands, violent, or long-continued exercise, ex- 
 hausts the forces, as well as diverts them from the 
 important work toward which you want to have all 
 her powers directed. You have apparently forgotten 
 some of the principles urged by the phrenologists 
 whom you once said you have studied. External rest 
 
FOREOEDAINED. 39 
 
 often promotes internal activity. Could Shakespeare 
 have wrought out his grand and delicate fancies if he 
 had been obliged to support his family by chopping 
 wood ?" 
 
 "You forget Burns, doctor, and Oliver W. Holmes," 
 said Mr. Hopelands. 
 
 "Nobody could make me believe that 'Old Iron- 
 sides,' 'The Last Leaf,' and 'The Funny Man,' were 
 written while Doctor Holmes was exhausted by in- 
 cessant work, or his brain busied and perplexed 
 with critical cases ; evidently some of his poems 
 were so written. Poor Burns ! what might he not 
 have done but for poverty and drink? But com- 
 parisons aside. To accomplish your great object 
 Mrs. Hopelands must be kept in full health and 
 vigor, or you may frustrate your own efforts. See 
 how bright she is after rest ! The depression was 
 the result of fatigue ; but this fatigue, frequent and 
 long-continued, would soon exhaust her vital powers, 
 so that she would have no surplus to transmit. The 
 mind, too, as you have seen, suffers with the body ; 
 overtasked in any way, she may transmit a weak, 
 sluggish nature." 
 
 "Your old theory again, doctor. Why even your 
 Bible contradicts you — listen, 'And breathed into his 
 nostrils the breath of life and man became a living 
 soul.'" 
 
40 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 "Woman has none then ! Your belief has the 
 weight of antiquity and numbers. The larger part 
 of the people on this globe have held it for ages." 
 
 "None, except as transmitted through man. My 
 child will be in heart and mind a Hopelands. It will 
 probably resemble its mother in form and face ; and 
 should it be a girl it cannot do better. Here is an 
 extract I like ; let me read it to you. 
 
 " 'Our race seems singled out by Providence to re- 
 plenish the earth. The probability is that one thou- 
 sand years hence, should the world last so long, the 
 Anglo-Saxon race will be, if not the only one, at all 
 events so far the dominant one that other races will 
 be merely insulated or subordinate. Consequently, 
 while foreigners may calculate on their pedigrees be- 
 coming extinct, and their characteristics becoming 
 extinct with them, each Anglo-Saxon must look for- 
 ward to becoming the progenitor of a future popula- 
 tion, handing down his defects of body and mind to 
 millions and millions of descendants.' 
 
 "For 'defects' read 'excellencies,' and you have my 
 exact idea, and again — 
 
 " 'Some families are endowed with natural advan- 
 tages, and some others with natural disadvantages, 
 these are transmitted by inheritance, like color and 
 size in animals ; and therefore all persons who 
 marry, with a prospect of having children, take upon 
 
FOREORDAINED. 41 
 
 themselves a great responsibility, because by per- 
 petuating these gifts or blemishes, they increase so 
 far the happiness or misery of the race/ 
 
 "You see I am right in urging Mrs. Hopelands to 
 perpetuate energy and beauty." 
 
 "Eight in your end, wrong as to means. If you 
 were hoping for a foot-racer or a Hercules, you might 
 try this ; but strength, if thus developed, would be at 
 the expense of other powers. You must remember 
 too, that the mother will need a reserve force of 
 strength for the birth and nourishment of the child. 
 It will not answer to have her overtasked. To carry 
 out your plans you will need the mother's milk for 
 your child ; there is no complete substitute for it. 
 Mrs. Hopeland's milk will develop a finer baby than 
 that of any wet nurse you can get, since the milk im- 
 parts much of the health and habits of the nurse. 
 The Chinese prize breast milk so highly that wealthy 
 people have their boys nursed until nine years old, 
 and keep wet nurses in their houses to be ready for 
 sickness or invalid old-age. You want your child to 
 have a well-balanced nature. Undue activity will 
 produce nervous irritability and consequent depres- 
 sion in the mother, and will thus act directly upon 
 the child's nervous system. To prevent this, nature 
 has given to the mother the desire and capacity for 
 more sleep then. Every woman carrying a child 
 
42 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 should (when at all possible) take a nap in the day- A 
 time ; certainly she ought to lie down often, if only 
 for a few moments at a time, to rest the overburdened 
 muscles. She ought to move leisurely, to live in a 
 tranquil atmosphere, to avoid all unrest and annoy- 
 ance, all discontent, fear and repining ; they directly 
 affect the child. If, as Buskin says, 'Every good and 
 loving thought that we entertain writes itself directly 
 on the face,' how much more clearly will it be traced 
 on the plastic infant ? While Mrs. Hopelands takes 
 daily exercise with you, she needs also hours of quiet 
 and solitude ; hours to rest, to dream, to brood over 
 her little one as the bird broods over her nest. It is 
 a wonderful work of creation. "We can do nothing 
 directly, but indirectly much. At no other time does 
 a woman so much need sympathy and patience as at 
 such a time, and never are they so abundant in good 
 results. 
 
 "We can watch the mother's health,can keep much 
 annoyance and trouble from her ; cheerful and thought- 
 ful for her comfort, we can help her to rise above the 
 sense of physical discomfort, so that the child may be 
 cheerful and brave. We can keep her in an atmos- 
 phere of peace and love, that the child may be loving 
 and sunshiny. You are fond of chemistry, would 
 you expect perfect crystals to form in a troubled fluid ? 
 There is something holy in maternity, and a pure in- 
 
FOREORDAINED. 43 
 
 stinct is often given to guide the mother ; we must 
 respect this. But I must practice as well as preach. 
 Let me advise Mrs. Hopelands to go at once to rest 
 and we will talk our subject out. Good night, 
 madam, and try to sleep." 
 
 " Doctor " said Mr. Hopelands after the lady had 
 gone, " you don't believe the absurd stories about 
 fright affecting unborn children ?" 
 
 " I do not need to believe what I know, my own 
 observation is conclusive here, and medical record 
 confirm it fully. Why was James YI. so afraid of 
 sword and dagger that he would tremble at sight of 
 either, and felt safe only in a dress so quilted as to be 
 dagger proof ? His mother was brave enough and 
 his father no coward ; Eizzio's murder injured the 
 babe more than it did the mother ; her terror was 
 only for her lover. 
 
 I could cite medical or historical cases all night, 
 but will speak only of what I myself have seen. A 
 patient of mine was badly nourished and longed for 
 some calfs-head soup ; she earned their support by 
 sewing, but her brute of a husband would not bring the 
 meat. Again and again he took the money only to 
 spend it in drink. Finally, vexed at her importunities, 
 he brought home a head, and coming behind her 
 thew it on the table where she sat at work. "When 
 the baby was born, the whole head was that of a calf. 
 
44 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 So faithful are some women, that I could get the story 
 from her only by telling her that I must give the 
 facts, and get authority to destroy the little monster. 
 
 Carelessness alone, lost an only child where one 
 had long been prayed for ; it came with a rabbit's 
 head. 
 
 One lady, somewhat like Mrs. Hopelands, stately 
 and calm, had gone out riding with her husband ; 
 she waited on the top of the hill while he went down 
 into the valley to his mill. Talking to the miller he 
 carelessly wrapped a red silk handkerchief around 
 his wrist ; as he came out it seemed, from where she 
 sat, to be covered with blood. Her baby's beautiful 
 arm was disfigured by a deep red stain ; she is a 
 woman now, but must always keep it closely covered. 
 
 " One child, crying in the distance with a berry- 
 stained face, made a similar permanent stain on the 
 baby of another family. A highly educated and 
 sensible lady, walking dreamily through woods in 
 autumn, was startled by a dry leaf falling on her cheek. 
 Involuntarily she put up her hand to brush it away ; 
 it was reproduced exactly on the face of her only 
 daughter It is very common to see cherries and 
 strawberries upon children — proof that the mother 
 ought to have every reasonable wish gratified when 
 possible — but one baby was born with a dark cape 
 covering its entire back. A friend going South had 
 
FOREORDAINED. 45 
 
 called to say good bye to the mother ; leaving hur- 
 riedly she left the cape of her cloak, and as she was 
 in poor health, and had gone directly to the New- 
 Orleans packet, the mother was distressed. She or- 
 dered her carriage and was driven rapidly to the 
 river ; the boat waa just leaving and the coachman 
 tossed the cape on board. She watched it as it fell, 
 and just as it spread out on the deck was the mark on 
 her boy. 
 
 " My Mary went down cellar at night, and put her 
 hand on a high shelf to reach something ; to her hor- 
 ror it clasped a mouse. She thought at once of her 
 baby and resolutely overcame the shock, not allowing 
 her mind to dwell upon it. Several times she was be- 
 hind runaway horses. Once her hand was badly 
 marked by a heavy sack fallng upon it. and our chil- 
 dren have had several alarming accidents, yet none 
 of our babes were marked. I am inclined to think 
 that by recollecting her child and controlling herself, 
 a mother can generally prevent birth-marks. 
 
 " Another accident not very rare, is the twisting of 
 the cord around the limb or arm, sometimes even \ 
 around the neck. This is caused by reaching 
 above the head or by lifting a heavy burden (a small 
 pile of empty flower pots lifted by the mother nearly 
 caused a child to strangle in the birth.) A woman in 
 maternity should never mount a step-ladder, step 
 
46 A STOEY OF HEEEDITY. 
 
 down from a high place, run up and down stairs, or 
 spring from a carriage. "When I see a man sit in 
 the carrige and allow his wife to spring out unassisted 
 I cannot help pitying the ignorance or carelessness 
 by which he is sure to cause her severe suffering and 
 probably to shorten her life. 
 
 "An aristocratic family kept an infant concealed — 
 its right arm had been cut off by the cord. They 
 were rich enough to buy it a golden member, as Miss 
 Kilmansegg did ; but their great trial was the shame 
 they felt that they must be subject to accident like 
 ordinary mortals. Think what a real distress such a 
 mutilation wonld be in a family where daily bread 
 must be earned by daily labor ! 
 
 "But more interesting even than the physical are 
 the mental influences. Dr. Gardner mentions a case 
 of interest as to created talent, that came under his 
 own observation. When Jenny Lind first came to 
 this country, Mrs. S., a lady of high refinement and 
 love of music, but with no musical talent, was ex- 
 tremely anxious to hear her, and went, regardless of 
 her change of form. She enjoyed it highly and 
 thought of nothing else. Her husband took her to 
 every concert even to the very last one, though she 
 almost feared to go. Two days after a little girl was 
 born with a remarkable talent for music and a very 
 sweet voice. When only eighteen months old she 
 
FOKEOKDAINED. 47 
 
 30uld carry a simple air correctly. As she grew up 
 ;his talent was cultivated, and proved a rich treasure, 
 rhe next daughter, born without this musical stimu- 
 us, showed only the taste for music that her father 
 md mother possessed, but no talent. 
 
 "So satisfied am I of the wonderful power of pre- 
 latal influences, that we have not only watched care- 
 fully through the nine months, but have been careful 
 lot to become parents except when both were men- 
 ially and physically at our best," said the doctor. 
 
 "Ah, that explains ! We have always admired the 
 jweet dispositions and well-balanced minds of your 
 mildren ; and yet, doctor, your temper is quick and 
 rou are inclined to be crotchety. Mrs. Morris is a 
 nodel lady." 
 
 "Then you grant that they have inherited their 
 superior spiritual natures from their mother? It 
 reminds me that the father of Tasso said of him at 
 sixteen, that he showed himself worthy of his mother. 
 Buffon used to say that he derived all his mental 
 qualities from his mother, and held it as a principle 
 ;hat children usually inherit their intellectual and 
 moral qualities from their mothers. But we have 
 squally strong cases of mental inheritance from the 
 father, more numerous indeed than from the mother ; 
 probably because woman's opportunities for education 
 were formerly much limited, and her time as mother 
 
48 A STOEY OF HEKEDITY. 
 
 and housekeeper must be frittered away on petty de- 
 tails. But the law of inheritance from both parents 
 is certain. It is a solemn truth that when God, in 
 describing* his character to Moses, adds 'visiting the 
 iniquities of the fathers upon the children.' He sim- 
 ply states a psychological law. A fit of anger, or sel- 
 fishness, or gloom, on the part of either parent, may 
 ruin a child's disposition for life. It seems to me 
 that one reason why Christ used the marriage rela- 
 tion as a type of his relation to the church, is that 
 He might teach us conversely to show the same un- 
 selfish love. Indeed, St. Paul says, 'Husbands, love 
 your wives, even as Christ loved the church and gave 
 Himself for it.' " 
 
 "You expect perfection, doctor, from what you call 
 'poor, frail, weak, human nature.' " 
 
 "Not from every one. Many are content to creep 
 along the valleys, but whoever would climb Mont 
 Blanc must lay aside every weight and go steadily 
 upward. Your object is so noble that only noble ef- 
 fort can attain it I presume Mrs. Hopelands is 
 asleep ; if she is, let me advise you to take a separate 
 room to-night, as any light would waken her, and it 
 is far easier to fall asleep again when long sleep has 
 quieted the nerves and rested the weary frame, than 
 it is if wakened soon after falling asleep. We try to 
 act upon this principle with all our patients, dispens- 
 
FOREORDAINED. 49 
 
 ing even with needed medicine for still more needed 
 sleep. Mrs. Hopelands' system is really much de- 
 pressed. She needs entire rest for awhile. How 
 late it is ! Good night ; you see that my hobby has 
 quite carried me away." 
 
CHAPTEK Y. 
 
 The two friends were seated together in the little 
 parlor that Cora Highbridge had always thought so 
 homelike and sunny ; but gradually the young lady 
 had become silent, and her frequent sighs distressed 
 her friend. 
 
 "Cora, dear," said Annie, "Auntie has sent me a 
 letter that I would like to read to you, if you are 
 willing. Her mother died while she was a mere 
 child and left a sealed package, marked — 'For my 
 Annie ; not to be opened until she is thinking of mar- 
 riage.' May I read it ?" 
 
 "Certainly, if you will be so good," answered Cora, 
 with awakened interest, and Annie read : 
 '• ' My precious daughter : 
 
 " 'You are giving up yourself to another, and now 
 your life wll be no longer all your own. If you can- 
 not trust him fully, if your heart is disquieted — stop ; 
 (50) 
 
FOREOKDAINKD. 51 
 
 and rest assured that this will be wise. Single life 
 may be very happy in affection and usefulness, or in 
 the cultivation of our powers and talents. But 
 married life without love and esteem on both sides 
 may be wretchedly unhappy. I once heard a married 
 lady describe hers as ' five years of hell on earth.' 
 Even good people are not always just and unselfish, 
 and human love is a frail reed. 
 
 " 'Should you learn this too late, do not despair; it 
 may be God's furnace for your alloy, and your only 
 road to Heaven. Take the precious promises : "Thy 
 Maker is thy husband," " The Lord hath called thee 
 as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and as 
 a wife of youth when thou wast refused, saith thy 
 God." " For the mountains shall depart, and the 
 hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart 
 from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace 
 be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on 
 thee." Eead Hosea II. 14-20 : Live for God—" None 
 of them that trust in Him shall be desolate." 
 
 " 'Should all your hopes be realized, yet do not 
 cling to earth and make it your all. Think how frail 
 are all earthly ties. "Thus saith the Lord, cursed be 
 the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his 
 arm and whose heart departeth from the Lord ; for 
 he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not 
 see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched 
 
52 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not in- 
 habited." "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the 
 Lord, and whose hope the Lord is ; for he shall be as 
 a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out 
 her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat 
 cometh, but her leaf shall be green, and shall not be 
 careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease 
 from yielding fruit." 
 
 " ' Mother longed to live that she might aid and 
 guide you in this untried journey ; but since it is the 
 will of God that you be left alone, as she was, she 
 prays the Father of the orphan to be with you, to 
 comfort, direct, and bless you ; prospering you that 
 your way may be safe, and as pleasant as an upward 
 way can be, for her earnest prayer for you is that, 
 whether you find or miss a real home on earth, you 
 may meet her in the eternal home. 
 
 " 'Begin your married life with prayer and careful- 
 ness. You are testing and helping to form your hus- 
 band's yet untried character. Never yield to anger 
 in his presence, nor descend to reproaches. Nor do I 
 think it best to use entreaty — it makes a wife a slave. 
 It seems to me that a quiet dignity, expecting and 
 taking her rights without question, is better far than 
 the meek submission generally preached to wives — 
 that seldom fails to make a man selfish and tyrannical. 
 Nor can we long love or respect one who treats us 
 
FOREORDAINED. . 53 
 
 as children and trifles with our feelings in order 
 that he may have the pleasure of soothing- them. 
 
 " 'As you hope to go down the hill of life leaning — 
 in the confidence of tried love — on your husband, as 
 you will wish your children to honor their father, do 
 not flatter him or seem to approve his faults in order 
 to avoid irritating him. How then can you correct 
 the same faults in your children ? how avoid the 
 responsibility if the father becomes in his old age the 
 terror of his home, the contempt of his children ? 
 Wordsworth had the same view of woman's duty. 
 He describes his "Phantom of delight," as 
 " ' "A being breathing thoughtful breath, 
 
 A traveler between life and death ; 
 
 The reason firm, the temperate will, 
 
 Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill : 
 
 A perfect woman, nobly planned, 
 
 To warn, comfort, and command ; 
 
 And yet a spirit still, and bright 
 
 With something of an angel light." 
 " 'An ancient writer said : "God created woman, 
 not from man's head — to rule over him ; nor from his 
 feet — to be inferior to him ; but from his side — to be 
 his equal ; and near his heart — to be dear to him." 
 
 " 'Remember that you are God's child as truly as 
 your husband is, no matter what his professions may 
 be ; and it is as much his duty to consult your happi- 
 ness as it is yours to minister to his. Yet be always 
 
54 A STOEY OF HEEEDITY. 
 
 kind and unselfish. Whatever you may meet of 
 wrong or unkindness, be careful to show no sulki- 
 ness ; be ready to oblige and always polite, even 
 though you cannot be affectionate or even friendly. 
 Above all, pray the loving Father that no thorn may 
 rankle and fester in your heart and destroy your hap- 
 piness, perhaps shorten your life. Do all as in God's 
 sight. This has strengthened me often "Whatsoever 
 ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto 
 men ; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the 
 reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord 
 Christ." 
 
 " 'To a woman, marriage means suffering. Be not 
 discouraged ; it is the common lot. From the mo- 
 ment your child's life begins you will suffer. Some 
 suffer from constant nausea ; nearly all from sleep- 
 lessness. There are natural remedies for all these 
 which a good physician will advise if you do not 
 know them yourself, but do not hesitate to tell all 
 your bad feelings to your trusted medical friend. A 
 child should be "a woman's crown of glory," not a 
 shame. Guard well your health, spirits, and temper. 
 They are of the first importance from the very be- 
 ginning. You will be tempted to overwork yourself 
 in order to get your house in nice order and your 
 sewing done up before your illness. But I pray you 
 remember that you are forming a child that shall live 
 
FOREORDAINED. 55 
 
 when houses and clothes are dust ; yes, when "the 
 earth and all the works therein shall be burned up." 
 Your temper, spirits, and health descend to your 
 child. Some careful mothers who have time for cul- 
 ture, study fine paintings and statuary then, and aim 
 to have only objects of beauty and harmony near 
 them. Others attend to music and painting, or the 
 study of science or literature for the purpose of men- 
 tal improvement. Let your aim be to form a noble 
 soul. A systematic endeavor to improve one's self helps 
 toward this. Some one asked Michael Angelo, "Why 
 do you take so much pains over trifles?" He an- 
 swered, "I work for eternity." Say now to your hus- 
 band, "I know that our child will inherit my present 
 temper. I am very sorry that this law of nature is 
 inexorable, for this illness makes me unusually ner- 
 vous, irritable and gloomy. Do be patient with me, 
 and help me to control myself for our child's sake. 
 Cheer me up and keep me good-tempered if possible, 
 until its well-being is secured." 
 
 " 'Go out of doors and enjoy all you can ; breathe 
 fresh air ; read nothing gloomy or exciting ; be with 
 cheerful people if possible ; laugh and forget all past 
 troubles and fears of the future ; trust them all to 
 Him who said, "I have loved thee with an everlasting 
 love." 
 
 " 'If anything startles or alarms you, think of your 
 
56 A STOEY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 child and try to be calm. Do no not put your hands 
 to your face when suddenly shocked or distressed ; 
 you may give it a birth-mark where your hands rest. 
 Do not lace at all ; it often causes deformity. Have 
 a silk or some dark wollen dress for the street, with 
 plaits that you can let out as needed ; for the house, 
 wear skirts and sacques. 
 
 " 'Bathe the breasts each day with cold water and 
 rub them well with a coarse towel. Southern ladies 
 say that by wearing (pinned inside the chemise) a 
 piece of coarse muslin, such as negroes wear, they 
 harden them for use. Should the nipples crack in 
 nursing, use camphor ice. Two months beforehand 
 keep slippery elm bark near you and chew it often, 
 it makes labor easier ; also during that time rub the 
 whole abdomen daily with Oil of Sweet Almonds, or 
 pure Vaseline ; this will relieve the stiffness and sense 
 of tightness that makes it difficult to move, and also 
 i to allow the skin to stretch without breaking. Be 
 regular in your habits or you may suffer from piles ; 
 use no cathartics ; if necessary to keep the bowels 
 free take enemas of tepid water. Use fruits rather 
 than much meat, unless you suffer from diarrhoea ; 
 regulate yourself by food easy of digestion, not by 
 medicine. Take no rich or indigestible food, no hot 
 suppers, but eat farinaceous articles and fruit freely, 
 yet do not over eat, for that is worse than moderation 
 
FOBEOBDAINED. 57 
 
 — it is quality and substance that count rather than 
 quantity. You need your flesh and strength kept up 
 by nourishing food nnd moderate out-door exercise. 
 " ' Count forty weeks from the time of conception, 
 if you know it ; if not, from the last period. Should 
 pain come on too soon, go to bed and keep quite still. 
 Secure a good nurse six months beforehand. She will 
 direct you about the care of yourself, your own clothes 
 and those of the child, and the arrangement of the 
 bed. Keep her at least a month, if in consequence 
 you cannot have a new dress for a year ; the first con- 
 finement requires great care, as any accident or trou- 
 ble then would be likely to recur again. Have every- 
 thing that will be needed at hand, and so arranged 
 that there can be no confusion or trouble when hur- 
 ried. At the first sign of labor send at once for the 
 nurse, lie down or walk about as you like until she 
 comes. A first labor is rarely short ; not until the 
 pains recur every few minutes is the end near. When 
 the bed is prepared lie on your left side, low enough 
 in the bed to have your feet press against the foot- 
 board when the pains come on ; but do this only to- 
 ward the last, or you will exhaust yourself unneces- 
 sarily ; it is indeed labor. Have a small pillow, basted 
 into a tight roll, placed between your knees. I know 
 that some physicians advise lying on the back — but 
 they never bore a child. With my first I lay thus, and 
 
58 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 can even now recollect the terrible pain in the back ; 
 with the other five I lay always on the left side and 
 thus avoided much of that suffering. 
 
 " 'Select your doctor with care, and then dismiss all 
 idea of shame or delicacy : there is no exposure. Of 
 course have a well-educated and experienced woman 
 physician, if you can find one. It will be a great 
 blessing to women when medical colleges will give 
 us — in the hour of our sorest need — a physician who 
 has herself suffered, and so can understand the pains 
 and the needs we are too ill to express. 
 
 " 'Ask the doctor to make an examination at once ; 
 if the presentation is right, there will be no difficulty ; 
 if not, insist upon having it made right. The pain 
 this causes will be nothing compared with what you 
 would suffer otherwise, and you might not be safe. 
 I forgot to say that if the bowels have not been 
 moved that day you will do well to take an enema be- 
 fore the doctor comes ; this aids the labor and allows 
 you to wait several days for a natural passage. 
 
 " ' Now try to be tranquil. My old doctor told me 
 that out of twelve hundred cases he did not lose one ; 
 the real danger is afterward, from fever or exhaustion. 
 Trust in God. Remember that He created woman 
 for maternity, that thus Christ Jesus came into the 
 world, and that He must have a special pity for mo- 
 thers. That you do not suffer alone, that every mo- 
 
FOBEOKDAINED. 59 
 
 merit some one is being- born, and that soon you will 
 forget even this anguish in "joy that a man is born 
 into the world." 
 
 " * When the bed is arranged after the child is 
 born, let the doctor lift you to the head of the bed ; 
 make no effort yourself. Keep very quiet be neither 
 joyful nor afraid, trust in God and sleep all you can. 
 See no stranger and do not leave the bed for nine days. 
 An old English physician charged his sister on her 
 leaving for America— a bride — "never be delivered off 
 the bed and never let the physician leave you without 
 taking away the after birth." This should come in 
 about fifteen minutes. 
 
 " * Have your baby sleep in its crib. Do not nurse 
 it oftener than once in three hours at first, and later 
 widen the interval to four, through the day, and but 
 once or twice at night. Have it sleep between soft 
 blankets, and watch that it is well covered* 
 
 " ' Exercise the same care and self-control over 
 temper, and spirits, while nursing that you did while 
 carrying your child ; and, above all things else train 
 it for immortality. 
 
 " ' May God bless you and your children, makiog 
 you and them blessings to the world and to each other, 
 and an added joy and glory to heaven. 
 
 " '" I will be a God to thee and to thy seed after 
 thee ; Lord, I rest in this promise ; Amen." ' " 
 
60 A STOBY OF HEEEDITY. 
 
 Cora had wiped away frequent tears, but now they 
 fell like rain, a refreshing summer shower. 
 
 " Oh I will try to be patient and brave, I will 
 indeed," she said earnestly, " I had just such a 
 mother, she bore me in pain and sorrow, and when 
 pain and sorrow are over will welcome me home. 
 I will trust in God, and try, for her dear sake, to bear 
 whatever he may send me." 
 
 " Yes," said Annie, warmly, " for their dear sakes 
 and for the * great cloud of witnesses ' of which the 
 apostle speaks when he exhorts us to patient effort. 
 How many millions of Christian woman have borne 
 bravely what we endure and dread ; no trial can lie 
 before us that some woman has not met and overcome. 
 And since any courage and faith and hope, that we 
 now exercise, will descend to our children — an endur- 
 ing inheritance that no change of fortunes can take 
 from them — we have the highest of all motives to be- 
 come Christ-like. Sometimes too, it seems to me that 
 we are like children in the dark, terrifying ourselves 
 with imaginary dangers ; probably half the troubles 
 we dread now, will disappear in the light of experience. 
 Anyhow, between us and the Promised Land lies a 
 raging sea, there is no inland path for us, and I 
 mean to follow the order bravely — * Speak unto the 
 children of Israel that they go forward! ' " 
 
CHAPTEE VI. 
 
 The dead-latch key clicked in the door of the little 
 hall and Archie came in with Doctor Morris. 
 
 " This is an unexpected treat to see both ladies at 
 once," said the doctor, after the usual greetings ; " I 
 was just passing when Mr. McDonald invited me in." 
 
 "Ah, Archie! He didn't tell you, doctor, how I 
 frightened him this morning ?" 
 
 " How, if you please ?" asked the doctor. 
 
 " First, what did he tell you ?" persisted Annie. 
 
 " O, a ridiculous story about your fainting. I knew 
 you never fainted, but the foolish fellow insisted on 
 bringing me in." 
 
 "A ioise fellow, doctor. It was a question of future 
 dinners. I had taken my usual cold bath about an 
 hour before dinner time, and when Archie came in — 
 so hungry ! behold a cold stove, no dinner, and the 
 cook on the lounge ! I had promised him his favor- 
 ite pudding, too ; no wonder he didn't want to risk 
 another such loss." 
 (61) 
 
62 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 " It is certain that the cook must dispense with 
 cold baths for some months at least ; don't resume 
 them until I advise you. I have known several cases 
 of severe trouble from them. During the winter, 
 sponge the whole body twice a week with tepid water, 
 to which you may add a teaspoonful of pulverized 
 borax or carbonate of soda, or ammonia. Use soap as 
 usual. Bathe in a warm room and cover each part of 
 the body, if possible, as soon as bathed ; use a coarse 
 Turkish towel to produce friction without much effort 
 and rub each part as bathed until it glows. Unless you 
 feel warm afterward it does you harm. To prevent 
 taking cold, it is well to rub in a little sweet oil. Even 
 this careful bathing is sometimes too much and must 
 be done in cases like yours not too often — your hab- 
 its are good — once a week is enough. I met with an 
 anecdote yesterday that made me think of you, An- 
 nie." 
 
 " Of me ! was it very bad ?" 
 
 " Epictetus, when sorely treated by his master, 
 Epaphroditus, smiled, and told him he would break 
 his leg with twisting it. This actually did occur, yet 
 he remained calm. To spectators who wondered at 
 this he replied : ' The body is external.' " 
 
 " Yes, I understand, we must be careful not to 
 abuse the external now, but how about the internal ? 
 Cora and I want to study hard. Shall we have faint- 
 
FOREORDAINED. 63 
 
 ing fits after ' Guizot's History of Civilization?'" ask- 
 ed Annie. 
 
 "An excellent authority — Doctor Madden — says, 
 ' Every pursuit which ennobles the mind has a ten- 
 dency to invigorate the body, and by its tranquiliz- 
 ing influence to add to the duration of life,' " replied 
 the doctor. 
 
 " Good ! and if we become authors ?" asked Annie. 
 
 " That is still more hopeful," answered the doctor. 
 " I happen to have a memorandum here that answers 
 you. Galen wrote three hundred volumes and lived 
 to 100 years ; Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school 
 to 98 ; Zenophon to 90 ; Beza to 86 ; Hobbes to 91 ; 
 Goethe to 82 ; Titian to 96 ; Michael Angelo to 89 ; 
 Fontanelle, the most universal genius that Europe 
 has produced — for forty -three years secretary of the 
 Academy of Sciences in Paris — lived with unimpaired 
 faculties to 100 years ; John Wesley to 88 ; Franklin 
 to 85 ; Chalmers to 83 ; Herschel to 84, and his sister 
 Caroline who worked with him, with all the 
 energy and endurance of — yes, a woman — lived to the 
 age of nearly 98, with her mind bright and clear. 
 Hannah Moore, the writer among the sisters, out- 
 lived the other four, dying at 89. The list might be 
 extended indefinitely, showing the power of an active 
 mind to sustain and vitalize the body. Still I don't 
 advise you ladies to attempt too much. It was a say- 
 
64 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 ing that Tine old leisure aided to produce Grecian 
 beauty.' You must choose your studies with care, 
 since you are not forming your own minds alone. A 
 noted scientist wrote : "Two competent authorities — 
 Sir A. Carlisle and Mr. Knight — say that they have 
 gathered from old teachers the observation that the 
 children of mathematicians learn mathematics most 
 readily ; of those who were fond of languages, lan- 
 guage most readily. Fondness for writing is heredi- 
 tary. In some families all the best thoughts come 
 through the pen — as the Adams', D'Isreali's, the 
 Senecas. "With the Pitts and Foxes legislative talent 
 was hereditary, and in the family of Porson, the 
 Greek scholar, a memory so wonderful that it passed 
 into a proverb — the ' Porson Memory.' Eaphael's 
 father and Vandyke's mother were painters.' The 
 conclusion he reaches from his varied research is, 
 ' Genius rarely descends, talent generally does.' " 
 
 "We have > no doubt, plenty of talents to transmit," 
 said Annie, sententiously ; "the only question is — 
 which?" 
 
 "Perhaps it is as well to alternate," replied the doc- 
 tor. "While it is certain one talent well cultivated, 
 or one pursuit closely followed, gives a man most 
 success in life, it is equally certain that this produces 
 a man of one idea. For the full development of the 
 faculties, and the full enjoyment of life, my plan of 
 
FOKEOKDAINED. 65 
 
 varied talents is best. But I think you do not need 
 me at present to minister to either mind or body. 
 Good night. Mrs. Highbridge, you will have to 
 adopt the rules about bathing that I gave Mrs. 
 McDonald. You are less able than she to endure a 
 cold bath or even a frequent one." 
 
 "Wait one moment, doctor," said Annie, impul- 
 sively. "I have thought much of what Mrs. Morris 
 said to me the other day about your Paul's frequent 
 fits of depression, so unlike the other children. Can 
 you trace it to anything before his birth ?" 
 
 "Indeed I trace it too directly," answered the doc- 
 tor. "About two months before his birth a train of 
 cars ran into my carriage at a dangerous point. It 
 was weeks before I regained my senses, and in that 
 time my wife nursed me day and night. No one 
 could persuade her to rest except to lie on the lounge 
 in my room. As soon as I was able I drove her out ; 
 but the mischief was done. She has always been 
 very careful, yet she says that every illness, trouble, 
 or joy passed through at those times is marked on 
 the children. Again, good night." 
 
 * * * * * # 4fr # # 
 
 "Day dawned ; within a curtained room 
 Filled to faintness with perfume, 
 A lady lay at point of doom." 
 
 These lines always made me shudder, knowing 
 
66 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 well, as I do, the absolute need of pure, fresh air for 
 the terrible struggle — the labor, harder than any phy- 
 sical effort that strong men make, yet laid upon the 
 most frail and sensitive frames. It was but a natural 
 result of this want of care for her comfort and safety, 
 that when 
 
 "Day closed, a hild had seen the light, 
 
 But for that lady fair and bright — 
 
 She rested in undreaming night." 
 
 With no mother or sister to care for her, her 
 husband in his library waiting impatiently for tid- 
 ings, but with no thought for the suffering woman, 
 Mrs. Hopelands lay for many hours in an atmosphere 
 so heavy, so de-vitalized, that her excellent constitu- 
 tion alone saved her. 
 
 "A splendid boy," said the nurse, exultingly, eager 
 to please the father. 
 
 In our day Mrs. Hopelands could have a nurse 
 from one of our admirable training-schools, and be 
 herself tenderly cared for. But when Warren Hope- 
 lands was born the nurse was generally either a 
 tyrant or an incapable. Often the one thing most 
 dreaded by mothers of large families was — not the 
 suffering, nor the illness, so much as the necessary 
 but almost unendurable nurse. 
 
 Mrs. Highbridge nursed, with motherly care and 
 tenderness, the faint life in the daughter whose sweet- 
 
FOREORDAINED. 67 
 
 ness and patience had made her very dear to her ; and 
 Cora rested tranquilly until she became strong, and 
 then rose from her sick bed to rejoice in her newly- 
 acquired treasure, and to find life full of interest in 
 caring* for it and in its sweet companionship. 
 
 But most tenderly cared for of the three was the 
 poor man's wife. A plain, motherly nurse without 
 pretension, an absence of show, or style, or visitors, 
 and the frequent presence and thoughtful care of her 
 husband who seemed to know by intuition — the won- 
 derful intuition of love — just what she wanted, were 
 hers. No wonder that she rose from her bed after a 
 long, peaceful rest, blooming, full of life and energy. 
 Nor did she ever become a nervous, dispirited invalid. 
 Often have I seen the first child full of strength and 
 vigor that the strong, energetic mother would have 
 transmitted to all her children, had she been allowed 
 — as many eminent physicians and scientists claim 
 that she should be allowed — to decide herself (as the 
 only one capable of judging) when she was best fitted 
 for this high, yet exacting duty. But they came too 
 close, and, being constantly kept at home by the 
 care of yonng children, both mind and body suffered. 
 It is said that the strongest bow will become useless 
 if never unbent ; but it never occurred to the hus- 
 band, interested in lectures, and concerts, and the 
 various hobbies of clubs or societies, that his wife 
 
68 A STOBY OP HEEEDITY. 
 
 needed amusement and relaxation far more than he 
 did, who was daily in the fresh air, and rested by the 
 change from home to business and from business to 
 home. Then, too, the husband often threw upon her 
 his own proper burdens, because she was patient and 
 willing ; and it did not occur to him that it was his 
 duty to help lift hers. 
 
 "Care and sorrow, and child-birth pain 
 Left their traces on heart and brain." 
 
 She became feeble and despondent, and the chil- 
 dren were nervous and irritable or depressed — robbed 
 of their birthright by their own father ! 
 
 It is as much a duty to limit the number of chil- 
 dren, by the mother's power to transmit health and 
 cheerfulness, as it is to care for them and provide for 
 their wants when they come. 
 
 "Two-thirds of all cases of womb disease," says 
 Dr. Tilt, "are traceable to child-bearing in feeble 
 women." 
 
 Dr. Hillier says : "Puny, sickly, short-lived off- 
 spring follows over-production." 
 
 Two healthy, energetic country people, living in a 
 pure atmosphere and with beautiful surroundings, 
 had eleven children in quick succession. Then the 
 mother died — sacrificed, and the father married again. 
 Five more children were born at short intervals. By 
 
FOREORDAINED. 69 
 
 the time the eldest was thirty -five only five remained 
 alive. 
 
 In another family a delicate mother bore • six chil- 
 dren at long intervals — twenty years between the eld- 
 est and the youngest. All lived, and the eldest is 
 now sixty, yet full of vigor. 
 
 "It is strange," says John Stuart Mills, "that intem- 
 perance in drink, or in any other appetite, should be 
 condemned so readily, but that incontinence in this 
 respect should always meet not only indulgence but 
 praise. Little improvement can be expected in mor- 
 ality until the producing too large families is regarded 
 with the same feeling as drunkenness, or any other 
 physical excess." 
 
 Dr. Drysdale, of London, comments thus on these 
 words : "In this error, if error it be, I also humbly 
 share." 
 
 Dr. Edward Keich says, after reviewing the multi- 
 tudinous evils which result to individuals and society 
 from a too rapid increase in families : "Very much 
 indeed is it to be wished that the function of repro- 
 duction be placed under the dominion of the will." 
 
 Dr. Napheys says : "Men are very ready to find an 
 excuse for self-indulgence, and if they cannot get one 
 anywhere else they seek it in religion. They tell the 
 woman it is her duty to bear all the children she can. 
 They refer her to the sturdy, strong-limbed women 
 
70 A STOEY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 of .the early colonies, to the peasant women of En 
 rope who emigrate to our shores, and ask and expect 
 the American wife to rival them in fecundity. They 
 do not reflect that she has been brought up to light 
 indoor employment, that her organization is more 
 nervous and frail, that she absolutely has not the 
 stamina required for many confinements." 
 
 The editor of a prominent medical journal of this 
 country says : "Wives have a right to demand of 
 their husbands at least the same consideration which 
 a breeder extends to his stock." 
 
 Sismondi, the learned historian of Southern Europe, 
 says : " Whenever it becomes unwise that the family 
 should be increased, justice and humanity require 
 that the husband should impose on himself the same 
 restraint which is submitted to by the unmarried." 
 
 Dr. Henry MacCormac, an eminent English writer, 
 says : "The brute yields to the generative impulse 
 when it is experienced. He is troubled by no com- 
 punction about the matter. Now, a man ought not 
 to act like a brute. He has reason to guide and con- 
 trol his appetites. Too many, however, forget, and 
 act like brutes instead of as men. It would, in effect, 
 prove very greatly conducive to man's interests were 
 the generative impulses placed absolutely under the 
 sway of right reason, chastity, forecast, and justice." 
 
 Dr. Napheys, in his "Physical Life of Woman," 
 
FOREORDAINED. 71 
 
 adds his testimony to the same important truth. 
 "Continence, self-control, a willingness to deny him- 
 self — that is required from the husband. It is 
 absurd for physicians or theologians to insist that it 
 is either the physical or the moral duty of the woman 
 to have as many children as she possibly can have. 
 It is time that such an injurious prejudice was dis- 
 carded and the truth recognized, that while marriage 
 looks to offspring as its natural sequence, there 
 should be inculcated such a thing as marital contin- 
 ence, and that excess here is repugnant to morality, 
 and is visited by the laws of physiology with certain 
 and severe punishment on parent and child." 
 
CHAPTEE VII. 
 
 Fifty years have passed since first we met Mr. 
 Hopelands ; his hair is now white, but his form is 
 still erect and his step full of strength. His children 
 occupy stately mansions near his own, and his eldest 
 son has often been discussed in the papers as our 
 probable president ; it would be a great gratification 
 to his father could this be accomplished. But though 
 "Warren Hopelands would adorn the White House as 
 few men have done, though he would do honor to our 
 country as an able, talented, and highly cultivated 
 president ; yet he will never be elected to that office. 
 No man can point out a fault in him or even a weak- 
 ness of humanity ; from boyhood he has been reti- 
 cent, self-sustained and dignified. Every one ad- 
 mires him as he rides slowly, statue-like, through our 
 streets on his daily constitutional. But no one loves 
 (72) 
 
FOREORDAINED. 73 
 
 him ; he never had an intimate friend even in boy- 
 hood ; in his household he is, as an old German said 
 admiringly, of him — " Like a marble pillar in his 
 manners." But no enthusiasm for him is possible. 
 Prudent leaders nominate him as the most capable 
 man for the party, but he is soon dropped for some 
 far inferior man, whom the multitude enshrine in 
 their hearts, and whose name is sung in doggerel on 
 the streets. And as Presidential elections go by with 
 the same result, the perpendicular lines on his face 
 deepen ; you begin to feel what a bitter enemy he 
 might make, and to avoid him. Another son is in 
 our Senate. One is a railroad magnate, and another 
 has been our minister at a luxurious European court. 
 
 Two sisters live side by side, in stone houses of 
 broad fronts. Their father planned and built them, 
 with pride and pleasure, and gave them as wedding 
 presents. — " Homes for his daughters " the papers 
 said, but they never seem homelike to him ; rarely 
 does he enter them, and then only as a social duty 
 and to avoid gossip. Each elegant lady entertains 
 him with tirades against her sister. For though 
 their porticoes adjoin and the street doors are so near 
 that they could clasp hands in entering, they have 
 not for years recognized each other even by the nod 
 given to ordinary acquaintances. 
 
 Mr. Hopelands is proud of his children's positions 
 
74 A STORY OP HEREDITY. 
 
 in society, their manners suit his taste, but he is 
 growing old and childish now. He thinks often of 
 the little ones who played around him and sometimes 
 climbed his knee to kiss him ; he has long since 
 forgotten how their childish play, and noisy 
 laughter used to annoy him ; and all its sweetness 
 seems to have gone out of his life since they grew 
 up. And how cold, and gray, and dull has life 
 grown! There are new books published, but they 
 seem but a re-hash of the old ; pictures and 
 art have lost their charm, and his failing eye-sight 
 makes the study of them a burden ; his ear has 
 lost its delicate appreciation of music ; travel can 
 give him nothing new ! He never cared for science 
 or philanthophy ; he never needed to engage in bus- 
 iness ; his government bonds and other investments 
 are so secure that they require no thought. His 
 home is in the city, his house has always been an 
 upholsterer's display, furnished to order — not with 
 loving care — and no associations endear its magnifi- 
 cence. There is neither tree nor vine nor flower 
 near it to bud and blossom and interest him in its 
 changes ; the cut flowers are furnished regularly by 
 the florist, and interest him no more than do the 
 frescoed walls. Even the world beyond sends no 
 rays to gild his old age, and tempt him heavenward ; 
 
FOKEOKDAINED. 75 
 
 he has no faith in God, no brotherhood with man. 
 He has founded a family, bnt he has lost himself ! 
 
 Mrs. Hopelands is shy of these stately, elegant ladies 
 and gentlemen ; her ideas and manners are now 
 old-fashioned. She cannot even dress to please 
 them, although she sometimes tries earnestly to do 
 so. The grand-children would be an inexhaustible 
 source of pleasure to her, but they look so critically 
 at her, and make such wise remarks ! The babies 
 are very sweet, and so like her own that her heart 
 yearns to take them away from the inevitable French 
 bonne and cuddle and cry over them. But that would 
 be impossible ; they are on dress parade, their laces 
 and embroideries must be kept immaculate, and she 
 is allowed only to kiss the soft cheek ; it is little 
 better than looking at wax figures. Sometimes, when 
 they are gone, she unlocks a drawer in the silver in- 
 laid chiffonier in her own dressing room, and broods 
 over it. What treasures the elegant cabinet must 
 contain ! Yes, — little shoes worn at the toes, faded 
 little dresses, broken toys ; school exercises in round, 
 straggling hand, a few blotted and ill-spelled letters, a 
 bladeless knife ! She kisses them and sheds over 
 them bitter tears ; for her children are gone, lost to 
 her for ever ; she will never find them on any spot of 
 the wide creation, — no heaven can ever give them 
 back to her. 
 
76 A STORY OF HEBEDITY. 
 
 We pity King David — 
 
 " That old man desolate, 
 
 In the chamber over the gate, 
 
 "Weeping and wailing sore 
 
 For his son, who is no more. 
 Oh, Absalom, my son ! " 
 Yet he had a child in heaven, and Mrs. Hopelands' 
 children have grown away from her and from their 
 heavenly Father. 
 
 Mrs. Highbridge, too, has a dream filled with such 
 treasures, and sometimes her fond tears fall upon 
 them. But she smiles over them, and often sits by 
 them, dreaming happy dreams that will some day 
 be realized. Dreams of the time when, like her dar- 
 lings, she shall lay aside the cumbering, suffering 
 flesh and put on immortality ; when the little ones 
 shall welcome her to their home, where each ungrati- 
 fied wish shall be met; where "they shall go no more 
 out forever," but love, and joy, and peace shall be 
 eternal. And sometimes over the drawer of memen- 
 toes, over her children's pictures, even, faith takes 
 flight to the Great White Throne where stands, as 
 Intercessor One nearer and dearer than friend, or 
 husband, or children. One who loved her and gave 
 himself for her, who has guided and kept her all her 
 life long, who has watched and strengthened her in 
 every trial, who will let no unnecessary burden be 
 laid upon her, who has promised to lead her even to 
 
FOKEORDAINED. 77 
 
 hoary hairs, to be with her in the valley of the 
 shadow of death, and to receive her to his everlasting 
 kingdom, where she shall not only be near but be 
 like him ; where she " shall see him as he is," whom 
 she has loved and followed in the darkness. Yes, 
 happiest of all her friends, because breathing* a 
 spiritual atmosphere far above theirs, it does not de- 
 press Mrs. Highbridge that her darlings have been 
 taken away ; that, nervous and feeble as she is, day 
 and night are often but alternations of suffering ; 
 that her husband is selfish and indifferent to her, only 
 rousing himself to be polite when strangers, and 
 especially young ladies, are present. 
 
 But one sore trial is like a sword in her heart — her 
 two sons "walk in the ways of their father." The 
 bright, loving boys who were to console her for the 
 loss of their father's love — the last treasures left her 
 here — the only prop on which she might lean since 
 her husband's father and mother had been taken 
 away — alas for them far more than for their father ! 
 They are reaping "the wild oats" he had sown. The 
 habits of his youth had become in his sons an irresist- \ 
 ible impulse — a disease. A writer in the Phrenological 
 Journal describes it as "an impulsive desire for stimu- 
 lant drinks, uncontrollable by any motives that can 
 be addressed to the understanding or conscience, — in 
 which the passion for drink is the master-passion, 
 
78 A STORY OP HEREDITY. 
 
 and subdues to itself every other desire and faculty 
 of the soul." 
 
 Dr. Elam says : "The modus operandi of inherited 
 evil is much the same in all cases, consisting in the 
 production of an enfeebled nervous system, a polarity 
 towards all temptation, and a will and power of resist- 
 ance proportionately diminished." 
 
 To watch and attempt to restrain them was only to 
 drive them to artifice. "When without money to 
 gratify their insane craving they entered the rooms 
 of their friends and stole their clothes and books, 
 selling them for the means of a single debauch. 
 They have so often forged their father's signature 
 that he has been obliged to direct that no cheque of 
 his shall be honored unless presented in person. A 
 trusted servant always goes for them at night, or 
 waits at home to get them quietly and safely to bed. 
 But never does that poor mother sleep until the 
 shuffling sounds and muttered oaths along the hall 
 tell of the return of her sons. 
 
 It is the natural result of the law of moral heritage. 
 
 Annie McDonald is turning, peacefully and cheer- 
 fully to descend the hill of life. Her eye is still 
 bright and her smile sunny. Her sons almost wor- 
 ship her, although they have loving wives and chil- 
 dren. The daughters come in every emergency to 
 mother, and rely fully upon her judgment and 
 
FOREORDAINED. 79 
 
 sympathy. They are all honorable, useful, happy 
 Christian men and women, shining in this dark world 
 with the gentle, clear light of purity and love. Father 
 and mother thank God daily for their children. Well 
 may they, for to the honor of our merciful Lord it is 
 recorded that while he visits the iniquities of the 
 fathers upon the children to the third and fourth 
 generations of them that hate Him (or violate His 
 laws), he shows mercy unto thousands of generations 
 of them that love him and keep his commandments. 
 So Archie and Annie look hopefully and joyfully 
 forward to the time when the M'Donald clan shall 
 gather at the call of the great Leader — not for con- 
 flict but for crowning. 
 
 Dr. Holmes says : "There are people who think 
 that everything may be done, if the doer, be he edu- 
 cator or physician, be only called in season. No 
 doubt ; but in season would often be a hundred or 
 two years before the child was born, and people 
 never send so early as that." 
 
 Doctor Moore says : "Our education may be said 
 to begin with our forefathers." It was said by a noted 
 physiologist, "Heritage has in reality more power 
 over our constitution and character than all the influ- 
 ences from without, whether moral or physical." 
 
 Cornelius says : "It is the greater part of our 
 felicity to be well born." 
 
80 A STOEY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 Epictetus says of himself : "I was a slave, a 
 cripple, a beggar, and a favorite of the Gods." 
 
 The only real wealth you can leave to your children 
 is the inheritance of character, not reputation — that 
 is a bubble and may soon burst. But character, 
 formed slowly by principle and habit, is an enduring 
 heritage. Bequeathed wealth beside it is like your 
 name traced on sea-sand beside a name graved in the 
 pyramids. Still more — inherited money is oftener a 
 curse than a benefit. 
 
 What will you leave to your descendants ? 
 
 Young man, pause at the very threshold of marri- 
 age, unless you are worthy. Do not enter its sacred 
 portals until you have become (as by prayer and 
 earnest effort you may become) what you would wish 
 your children to be for a thousand generations. 
 
 Father, mother, — the place where thou standest is 
 holy ground. Walk lovingly, carefully, reverently, 
 as in the sight of God's angels. The angels of little 
 children "do always behold the face of your Father 
 who is in heaven." 
 
 [the end.] 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Physical science and the laws governing 1 the ori- 
 gin of life have occupied many learned men ever 
 since Doctor Morris gave the results of his study and 
 experience ; but their researches only add to and con- 
 firm his theories. Carefully-prepared statistics, as 
 well as genealogical tables of families remarkable for 
 talent or for tendency to crime, show plainly the 
 strength and prevalence of the laws of heredity, and 
 the power of pre-natal influences. The limited scope 
 of this little book will not allow full quotations, but 
 any one who will examine our libraries will find proof 
 of the simple truths here offered in such books as 
 "Heredity," from the French of Th. Eibot ; "The 
 Jukes," by E. L. Dugdale ; "Hereditary Genius," by 
 Francis Galton, and "Hereditary Disease," and 
 "English Men of Science," by the same author, and 
 others, to whom I am indebted for valuable informa- 
 (81) 
 
82 A STOBY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 tion. From these and other writers on the subject, I 
 quote a few passages. 
 
 "Intelligence gropes about, tries this way and 
 that, commits mistakes and corrects them ; instinct 
 advances with a mechanical certainty." — Th. Bibot. 
 
 " There is no escape from the conclusion that 
 nature prevails enormously over nurture, when the 
 differences of nurture do not exceed what is com- 
 monly to be found among persons of the same rank 
 of society and in the same country." — Ibid. 
 
 "Nature is all that a man brings with himself into 
 the world. Nurture is every influence from without 
 that affects him after his birth. The distinction is 
 clear. The one produces the infant such as it actual- 
 ly is, including its latent faculties of growth of body 
 and mind ; the other affords that environment amid 
 which the growth takes place, by which natural ten- 
 dencies may be strengthened or thwarted, or wholly 
 new ones implanted. When nature and nurture com- 
 pete for supremacy, the former proves the stronger." 
 — Galton's "English Men of Letters." 
 
 "We are inclined to assign but little importance to 
 causes acting after birth, such as diet, climate, cir- 
 cumstances, education, physical and moral influences. 
 The causes anterior to birth, but subsequent to con- 
 ception, are all the physical and moral disturbances 
 of uterine existence, all those influences which can 
 
FOKEOKDAINED. 83 
 
 act through the mother upon the foetus during- the 
 period of gestation — impressions, emotions, defective 
 nutrition, effects of imagination." — Th. Ribot. 
 
 "It is a rule that the more complicated the 
 mechanism, the greater the disproportion between 
 causes and their effects." — Ibid. 
 
 "Slight differences in natural disposition of human 
 races may in one case lead irresistibly to some par- 
 ticular career, and in another case may make that 
 career an impossibility." 
 
 "The happiness that is transmissible from one 
 human being to another by natural descent does not 
 perish like wealth which is liable to accidents from 
 without. It is part of the human beings themselves. 
 The good constitution and sense, the good temper, 
 amiableness and beauty of one family may be divided 
 and sub-divided in geometrical progression, by com- 
 bination with the individuals of other families ; but 
 will never wear out, or cease to exist, for division is 
 not annihilation." — "Heredity," by an English clergy- 
 man. 
 
 "In these days a very exaggerated importance is 
 attached to education. Parents depend on educational 
 training for neutralizing those defects in their chil- 
 dren which they ought to have foreseen before they 
 determined on bringing children into the world. 
 They should be aware that no precept which they 
 
84 A STOKY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 can inculcate, or example which they can set, will 
 turn bad tempers into good ones ; neither can 
 hygiene, or exercise, or all the fresh air in the world, 
 create good constitutions." — Ibid. 
 
 "Few would deserve better of their country than 
 those who determine to lead celibate lives, through a 
 reasonable conviction that their issue would probably 
 be less fitted than the generality to play their part as 
 citizens." — Galton. 
 
 "Man knows how petty he is, but he also perceives 
 that he stands here on this particular earth, at this 
 particular time, as the heir of untold ages and in the 
 van of circumstances." 
 
 "The long period of the dark ages under which 
 Europe has lain is due, I believe, in a very consider- 
 able degree to the celibacy enjoined by religious or- 
 ders on their votaries. Whenever a man or woman 
 was possessed of a gentle nature that fitted him or 
 her to deeds of charity, to meditation, to literature, 
 or to art, the social condition of the time was such 
 that they had no refuge elsewhere than in the bosom 
 of the church. But the church chose to preach and 
 exact celibacy. The consequence was that these 
 gentle natures had no continuance, and that by a 
 policy so singularly unwise and suicidal that I am 
 hardly able to speak of it without impatience. The 
 church brutalized the breed of our forefathers. The 
 
FOKEORDAINED. 85 
 
 policy of the religious world in Europe was exerted 
 in another direction with hardly less cruel effect on 
 the nature of future generations, by means of per- 
 secutions which brought thousands of the foremost 
 thinkers and men of political aptitudes to the scaffold, 
 or imprisoned them during a large part of their man- 
 hood, or drove them as emigrants into other lands. 
 Hence the church, having first captured all the gentle 
 natures, made another sweep of her huge nets to 
 catch those who were the most fearless, truth-seeking 
 and intelligent in their modes of thought, and, there- 
 fore, the most suitable parents of a high civilization, 
 and put a strong check, if not a direct stop, to their 
 progeny. Thus as she brutalized human nature by 
 her system of celibacy applied to the gentle, she de- 
 moralized it by her system of persecution of the in- 
 telligent, the sincere and the free. During the three 
 hundred years from 1471 to 1781, in Spain, 32,000 
 were burnt, 17,000 died in prison or escaped from the 
 country, and 291,000 were imprisoned or punished 
 for religious belief. It is impossible that any na- 
 tion could stand a policy like this without paying a 
 heavy penalty in the deterioration of its breed. 
 
 "Italy was frightfully persecuted. In the diocese of 
 Como alone, more than 1,000 were tried annually by 
 the inquisitors for many years, and 300 were burnt in 
 the single year 1416. 
 
86 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 "In France, in the 17th century, three or four 
 hundred thousand Protestants perished in prison, at 
 the galleys, in their attempts to escape, or on the 
 scaffold, and an equal number emigrated. Mr. Smiles, 
 in his book on the Huguenots, has traced the influ- 
 ence of these and of the Flemish emigrants on Eng- 
 land, and shows clearly that she owes to them almost 
 all her industrial arts and very much of the most 
 valuable life-blood of her modern race. There has 
 been another emigration from France of not unequal 
 magnitude, but followed by different results — namely 
 that of the ^Revolution in 1789. It is most instructive 
 to contrast the effects of the two. The Protestant 
 emigrants were able men, and have profoundly influ- 
 enced for good both our breed and our history ; on 
 the other hand the political refugees had but poor 
 average stamina and have left scarcely any traces be- 
 hind them." — Galton's "Hereditary Genius." 
 
 The same author gives tables of mental inherit - 
 i, ance, from which I quote a few names : "Burns, 
 Schiller and Cuvier inherited their talent from the 
 mother. The mother of Sir Francis Bacon — Ann 
 Cooke — belonged to a lrighly-gifted family and was a 
 distinguished scholar. The mother of James Watt 
 was a woman of remarkable mind. Anthony Yan 
 Dyke, the painter, had his inheritance from both 
 parents, his father being a painter and his mother 
 
FOREORDAINED. 87 
 
 famous for her beautiful designs in tapestry. Byron 
 inherited the fierce, bitter temper of his mother. 
 Goethe inherited his father's splendid health and 
 form and his mother's energy and poetic talent. He 
 married his servant-maid, and his son inherited 
 Goethe's form and face with the mother's narrow 
 mind. Tasso inherited talent from both parents. 
 Mozart inherited from his father his talent, and his 
 sister and two sons shared it. During nearly 200 
 years the Bach family produced a multitude of artists 
 of the first rank. Fifty-seven are mentioned with 
 distinction. Its head was Weit Bach, a baker, who 
 in his leisure hours solaced himself with music and 
 song. Beethoven inherited musical talent from father 
 and grandfather. Rossini's father and mother were 
 musicians at fairs. Mendelssohn belonged to a 
 talented family ; all were literary or musical. His 
 sister aided him in his work. Herschel inherited 
 and transmitted talent, his sister aided him, and 
 his son excelled him. Aristotle's father was a 
 distinguished physician and author of several 
 works. Grotius, Macaulay, Porteus, each inherited 
 talent from his grandfather and father. George 
 Stephenson and his son Robert had the same 
 engineering talent. Schlegel, Seneca, Madame de 
 Stael descended from families of talent and high cul- 
 ture. The family of Lamorgnon was for generations 
 
88 A STORY OF HEREDITY. 
 
 one of magistrates, for which they were fitted by just 
 and noble characters. Hippocrates was the seven- 
 teenth physician in his family. Lady Hester Stan-^ 
 hope inherited her strong will from the Pitts. The 
 Catos were always austere ; the Appii, proud and 
 inflexible ; the Guises bold, proud and politic ; the 
 Medicis cruel and crafty." 
 
 Montaigne was much interested in heredity. He 
 wrote of himself : "I inherited from a line of long- 
 lived ancestors an unconquerable aversion to drugs, 
 and not even the fear of death could overcome it." 
 
 The conclusion drawn from these cases is thus 
 stated by Galton. "It is certain that the child in- 
 herits from both parents. It never happens that 
 either parent exercises an exclusive influence. The 
 action of one is always preponderant. This prepon- 
 derance takes place in two ways, either within the 
 same sex or from one sex to the other. Heredity is 
 taken in too narrow a sense when it is restricted to 
 two generations. Its law is absolute transmission, 
 and in spite of all the obstacles which tend to 
 weaken or destroy it, it struggles on without truce 
 or pause." 
 
 The records of inherited disease and crime are 
 startling. It is estimated that from one-half to one- 
 third of the cases of insanity are hereditary ; in a 
 
FOEEORDAINED. 89 
 
 Connecticut asylum was a lunatic, the eleventh of his 
 family. 
 
 Dr. Harris says — "The best and most unprejudiced 
 observers are agreed that the families of inebriates 
 develop forms of nervous and brain diseases which 
 could only be referred to the habit of drinking in the 
 parent. Dr Magnus Huss of Stockholm declared 
 that drinking produced partial atrophy of the brain, 
 which was handed down to the children. The brain 
 was then too small for its bony case, and lunacy was 
 the result. The same fact has been observed in the 
 lunatics of Massachusetts. In France Dr. Morel had 
 observed the same result — diminished brains through 
 several generations leading to imbecility, homicidal 
 insanity, idiocy and final extinction." — Harris on 
 " Alcoholic Inebriety." 
 
 The history of the Jukes family, "A Study in Crime 
 Pauperism, Disease and Heredity," by E. S. Dugdale, 
 gives a strong case that yet could be easily paralleled. 
 Their ancestor was born about 1730 ; he is described 
 as a jolly companionable man, fond of hunting and 
 fishing, but averse to steady labor. Idleness led the 
 way to vice ; in the fifth generation were 123 descend- 
 ants, terrors and nuisances mostly wherever they went. 
 Thirty-five were the descendants of an illegitimate 
 grand-daughter, of these, sixteen have been in jail, — 
 one no less than nine times ; eleven led pauper, dis- 
 
90 A StOEY OF HEEEDITY. 
 
 reputable lives, four were intemperate. The propor- 
 tion was almost the same in the other branches, but 
 by the time the family numbered 540 they began to^ 
 die out, from the result of accumulated vices, and 
 are now fast passing away. 
 
 Mr. Dugdale says — " If this were merely the record 
 of so many human beings who have simply died it 
 would lose most of its significance ; but in view that 
 this is the record of so many who have lived maimed 
 lives, maimed in numberless ways ; entailing maimed 
 lives full of weakness which is wretchedness ; sap- 
 ping the vitality of innocent ones to the third and 
 fourth generations in a constantly broadening 
 stream ; and breeding complex social disorders 
 growing out of these physiological degenerations ; 
 the question grows into larger and more momentous 
 proportions the more minutely we look into it. 
 
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