Heredity

The recognition of the Principle of Heredity extends back to the early Greeks and Romans. Plato and Lucretius both compare the succession of lives to the racers with torches in the games of the Athenian festival to Vulcan: thus Plato, "Handing on life to one another as a lamp (Or torch) ",...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paterson, David William Horn
Published: University of Edinburgh 1901
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.734994