we must believe that it is crowded with invisible characters, proper to both
sexes, to both the right and left side of the body, and to a long line of male
and female ancestors separated by hundreds or even thousands of generations
from the present time: and these characters, like those written on paper with
invisible ink, lie ready to be evolved whenever the organisation is disturbed
by certain known or unknown conditions.


CHAPTER 2.XIV.

INHERITANCE continued.--FIXEDNESS OF CHARACTER--PREPOTENCY--SEXUAL LIMITATION
--CORRESPONDENCE OF AGE.

FIXEDNESS OF CHARACTER APPARENTLY NOT DUE TO ANTIQUITY OF INHERITANCE.
PREPOTENCY OF TRANSMISSION IN INDIVIDUALS OF THE SAME FAMILY, IN CROSSED
BREEDS AND SPECIES; OFTEN STRONGER IN ONE SEX THAN THE OTHER; SOMETIMES DUE TO
THE SAME CHARACTER BEING PRESENT AND VISIBLE IN ONE BREED AND LATENT IN THE
OTHER.
INHERITANCE AS LIMITED BY SEX.
NEWLY-ACQUIRED CHARACTERS IN OUR DOMESTICATED ANIMALS OFTEN TRANSMITTED BY ONE
SEX ALONE, SOMETIMES LOST BY ONE SEX ALONE.
INHERITANCE AT CORRESPONDING PERIODS OF LIFE.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE WITH RESPECT TO EMBRYOLOGY; AS EXHIBITED IN
DOMESTICATED ANIMALS: AS EXHIBITED IN THE APPEARANCE AND DISAPPEARANCE OF
INHERITED DISEASES; SOMETIMES SUPERVENING EARLIER IN THE CHILD THAN IN
THE PARENT.
SUMMARY OF THE THREE PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

In the last two chapters the nature and force of Inheritance, the
circumstances which interfere with its power, and the tendency to Reversion,