SELF-MADE MEN.
ON THB ROAD TO DEGENERACY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 6, 5.20 p.m. London, May 5. Doctor Frederick Mott, Pathologist in the 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 and features are inherited. He makes the suggestion that self-made men not infrequently formed the first step ia the process of degenerating by selfishness and moral guile, by which they amassed fortunes for their children to spend foolishly. The first evidence of degeneracy in children is possessing the same selfish instinct, but, with no need to work, they acquire vicious habits, and criminal propensities, and frequently terminate their careers in ths mad-house.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 287, 7 May 1914, Page 5
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122SELF-MADE MEN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 287, 7 May 1914, Page 5
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