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Excerpt from The Relative Strength of Nurture and Nature
We might for example discover that the mentally and physically fitter child comes from the cleaner and less crowded home, and therefore argue that the spread of such homes is a condition for national progress. But further investigation might show that the essential condition for such homes is the exist ence of mentally and physically fit parents, and that the fitness of the children ?ows after all from the parentage and not from the home.
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