In Kantsaywhere they think much more of the race than of the individual, and on my expressing a faint surprise, the family argued to the following effect - "Suppose a person to be one of the two parents of four children. He or she contributes a half share to each, which is much the same as a whole share to two. This process may continue indefinitely in a growing population like their own, so his or her influence on the race may increase in geometric proportion as the generations go on. A person is therefore more important as a probable progenitor of many others more or less like him than as a mere individual. [obs type] I learnt that the object of the first examination was to give a Pass certificate for "Genetic" qualities. By genetic is meant, all that is transmissible by heredity, whether it be of ancestral origin or else a personal sport or mutation. The refusal to grant a Pass certificate is equivalent to an assertion that the person is unfit to have any offspring at all. By a second-class certificate, that permission is granted, but with reservations, of which more will be said later. -22- [end]