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Excerpt from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems, Vol. 2
The Second Essay is concerned with the problem as to the origin of those higher mental-powers of civilized races which have played no part in the struggle for existence, and the high cultivation of which has been entirely independent of natural selection. I have chosen the art of music as an example, because it presents so deceptive an appearance of improvement by the inheritance of the results of practice from one generation to another.
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