SELF-MADE MEN.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 77, 7 May 1914, Page 11

SELF-MADE MEN.

AND FAMILY DEGENERACY.

SCIENTIST'S STARTLING- THEROY.

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LONDON, May 6.

Dr Frederick Mott, pathologist to the London County Asylums, ' discussing the subject of neuropathic inheritance, shows that the pattern of .the human brain is capable of being inherited, just as the shape of the features is inherited.

Dr Mott makes the suggestion that self-made men not infrequently form the first step in the process of family degeneration. The selfishness and moral guile by which they amassed fortunes for their children to spend selfishly, is the first evidence of degeneracy. Their children possess the same selfish instinct, and with no need to work, they acquire vicious habits and ■ criminal propensities, and frequently ; terminate their careers in the madhouse.