Vicious Imaginations––And what of a scheme whose first condition is the regeneration of the vicious––vicious, not only by inherited propensity, and by unbroken inveterate habit, but reduced to that state of, shall we say, inevitable viciousness––when ‘unconscious cerebration,’ with untiring activity, goes to the emanation of vicious imaginations? All these things are against us.
THE LAW FOR US––LIMITATIONS TO THE DOCTRINE OF HEREDITY.
But the last word of Science, and she has more and better words in store, is full of hope. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, but it is not inevitable that the children’s teeth be set on edge. The soul that sinneth it shall die, said the prophet of old and Science is hurrying up with her ‘Even so.’