WHEN all the world is ringing with the words “heredity” and “inheritance,” it is natural to feel some surprise and amazement on hearing from even so high an authority as Dr. Hurst that they are expressive of nothing but the incoherence of ideas emanating from confused brains. Perhaps as a student of Darwinism I may be allowed a little space in your columns to suggest that there is an alternative view to that held by Dr. Hurst.