IV. Origin of Instincts: are they Hereditary Habit?

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CHAPTER III.

HEREDITY OF THE MEMORY.

I. Memory referred to Habit, and to the Law of the Indestructi-

bility of Force ...

II. Heredity, Specific Memory; Heredity of Memory

CHAPTER IV.

HEREDITY OF THE IMAGINATION.

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II. Heredity in Men of Science, Philosophers, and Economists

III. Heredity in Authors and Men of Letters

CHAPTER VI.

HEREDITY OF THE SENTIMENTS AND THE PASSIONS.

I. Psychological Study of Sentiment

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II. Physical Tendencies: Heredity of General Sensibility; of Anti-

pathy; of the Sexual Appetite; of Dipsomania

III. Moral Tendencies: their Heredity; Gaming, Avarice, Theft,

Homicide. Relations between Passion and Insanity ...

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I. Insanity is always produced by Organic Causes

II. Heredity of Hallucination, Suicide, Homicidal Monomania,

Demoniacal Possession, Hypochondria, Presentiments

III. Heredity of Mania, Dementia, General Paralysis. Statistics

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III. Heredity is the Law, Non-heredity the Exception

CHAPTER II.

THE LAWS OF HEREDITY.

I. Four Principal Forms of Heredity

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Section 1.-Direct Heredity. Influence of Parents: Doctrines

on this Subject. Hybridism. Instances of Heredity from

Mother to Son, Father to Daughter, Father to Son, Mother

to Daughter

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Section 2.-Atavism

Section 3.-Indirect or Collateral Heredity

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Section 4.-Heredity of Influence. Heredity compared with

Alternate Generation ...

IV. Disproportion between Causes and their Effects

V. The Metamorphoses of Heredity

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THE CAUSES.

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CHAPTER I.

GENERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL AND THE

MORAL.

I. Heredity one Aspect of these. The Present State of the Question.

The Opposition between Physics and Morals

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II. Phenomena of Unconsciousness; the Spinal Cord and Reflex

Actions; Automatism of the various Nerve-Centres; Auto-

matism of the Brain; Unconscious Cerebration. The Uncon-

scious in Psychological Phenomena: Instinct, Habit, Perception,

Imagination, Reasoning, Character, Language

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III. Phenomena of Consciousness. The Fact of Consciousness referred

to Nerve Shock. Velocity of Thought: how Measured. Is

Consciousness Simple or Complex, Cause or Effect? Impossi-

bility of conceiving of the Ego without Phenomena, or Pheno-

mena without the Ego

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IV. Two Contemporaneous Doctrines: Mechanism, which reduces
Thought to Movement; and Idealism, which refers Movement

to Thought

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V. Is the Problem of the Relations between Physics and Morals a
Case of the Law of Correlation of Forces ?...

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THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL AND THE MORAL:

A PARTICULAR CASE.

I. Has every Psychological State its Antecedent in a Physiological

II. Examples drawn from the so-called Ideal Passions

III. Examples drawn from the Intellectual States

CHAPTER III.

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL HEREDITY.

I. Possible Hypotheses as to the Relations between these two

Heredities. Is Psychological Heredity the Cause of Phy-

siological Heredity? Is Physiological Heredity the Cause of

Psychological Heredity? Agreement of the Empirical and

Idealistic Solutions

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II. Can Heredity be explained? Darwin and Pangenesis. Heredity is

Identity

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II. Can Heredity become a Means of Selection, by Accumulating

Slight Differences? Consanguineous Marriages. Half-breeds :

Predominance of the Superior Race

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III. Heredity as a Cause of Decadence

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