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Later, in proportion as the progress of civilization makes itself felt, this hereditariness is wont to be confined to the sovereign.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

Here, as elsewhere in tracing hereditariness in so-called functional nervosities, one should take as the unit character for study the mental traits or trends and exclude definite disease entities applied to ancestral disorders.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various