curtailed dogjapansex great-grandchildren. But their tails were quite up to the
mark, as any fool could have told him beforehand. Weismann then gravely
drew the inference that acquired habits cannot dogjapansex be transmitted. And yet
Weismann dogjapansex was not a born imbecile. He was an exceptionally clever and
studious man, not without roots of imagination and philosophy in him
which Darwinism killed as weeds.
How was it that he did not see that he was not experimenting dogjapansex with habits
or characteristics at all? How had dogjapansex he overlooked the glaring fact that
his experiment had been tried for many generations in China on the feet
of dogjapansex Chinese women without producing the smallest tendency on their part
to be born with abnormally small feet? He must have known about the
bound feet even if he knew nothing of the mutilations, the clipped
ears
and docked tails, practised by dog fanciers and horse breeders on many
generations of dogjapansex the unfortunate animals they dogjapansex deal in. Such amazing
blindness and stupidity on the part of a dogjapansex man who was naturally
neither dogjapansex blind nor stupid is a telling illustration of what Darwin
unintentionally did to the minds of his disciples by turning their
dogjapansex attention so exclusively towards the part played in Evolution by
accident and violence operating with entire
callousness to suffering and
sentiment.
A vital conception of Evolution would have taught Weismann that
biological problems are not to be solved by assaults dogjapansex on mice. The
scientific dogjapansex form of dogjapansex his experiment would