[Gutenberg 42329] • Facts and Fictions of Life

There are at least two sides to every question. Usually there are several times two sides; or at least there are several phases in which the question has a different aspect. I am led to state these seemingly unnecessary truisms because I have been confronted by hearers or readers who assumed, since I had presented a certain phase or manifestation of heredity in a given article or lecture, that I was intending to argue that a fixed rule of transmission would necessarily follow the line I had then and there drawn. Nothing could be farther from my idea of the workings of the law of heredity. Nothing could be more absurdly inadequate to the solution and comprehension of a great basic principle.