 | 1860 - 800 pages
...reasons for noticing the transmission of qualities from parents to offspring, and we find it hard lo hold a child accountable in any moral point of view...inherited bad temper or tendency to drunkenness, — as hard as we should to blame him for inheriting gout or asthma I suppose we are more lenient with human... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 340 pages
...constant reasons for noticing the transmission of qualities from parents to offspring, and we find it hard to hold a child accountable in any moral point...inherited bad temper or tendency to drunkenness, — as hard as we should to blame him for inheriting gout or asthma. I suppose we are more lenient with human... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Birthmarks - 1861 - 342 pages
...constant reasons for noticing the transmission of qualities from parents to offspring, and we find it hard to hold a child ac•countable in any moral point...inherited bad temper or tendency to drunkenness, — as hard as we should to blame him for inheriting gout or asthma. I suppose we are more lenient with human... | |
 | Isaac Ray - 1863 - 366 pages
...constant reasons for noticing the transmission of qualities from parents to offspring, and we find it hard to hold a child accountable in any moral point...inherited bad temper, or tendency to drunkenness, — as hard as we should to blame him for inheriting gout or asthma." * * Elsie Venner, ii. 115. CHAPTEE II.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 812 pages
...Indians — and a good many of their own race too — as a kind of self-conscious blood-clocks, with very limited power of self-determination ; and they...tendency to drunkenness, as they would to blame him for inheriting gout or asthma.' But we cannot pursue this sad and complicated subject further, and must... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...constant reasons for noticing the transmission of qualities from parents to offspring ; and we find it hard to hold a child accountable in any moral point...inherited bad temper or tendency to drunkenness, as hard as we should to blame him for inheriting gout or asthma. Ministers talk about the human will as... | |
 | John Harvey Kellogg - Marriage - 1886 - 720 pages
...Indians, — and a good many of their own race, too, — as a kind of self-conscious blood-clocks, with very limited power of self-determination ; and they...tendency to drunkenness, as they would to blame him for inheriting gout or asthma." Notwithstanding these facts, we must still maintain that man is morally... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American literature - 1891 - 544 pages
...constant reasons for noticing the transmission of qualities from parents to offspring, and we find it hard to hold a child accountable in any moral point...inherited bad temper or tendency to drunkenness, — as hard as we should to blame him for inheriting gout or asthma. I suppose we are more lenient with human... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Authors, American - 1891 - 534 pages
...constant reasons for noticing the transmission of qualities from parents to offspring, and we find it hard to hold a child accountable in any moral point...inherited bad temper or tendency to drunkenness, — as hard as we should to blame him for inheriting gout or asthma. I suppose we are more lenient with human... | |
 | Apologetics - 1891 - 492 pages
...not to speak of Anglo-Saxons — as a kind of self-conscious blood-clocks, with very limited powers of self-determination; and they find it a*s hard to hold a child accountable from a moral point of view, as they would to blame him for inherited gout or asthma." In this connection... | |
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... queer tendencies in minds supposed to be sane, so that we have nothing but compassion for a large class of persons condemned as sinners by theologians, but considered by us as invalids. We have constant reasons for noticing the transmission of qualities... 
