But when we asked them, in our later, more intimate
conversations, how they accounted for so much divergence
without cross-fertilization, they attributed it partly to the
careful education, which followed each slight tendency to differ,
and partly to the law of mutation. This they had found in their
work with plants, and fully proven in their own case.
Physically they were more alike than we, as they lacked all
morbid or excessive types. They were tall, strong, healthy, and
beautiful as a race, but differed individually in a wide range of
feature, coloring, and expression.
"But surely the most important growth is in mind--and in the
things we make," urged Somel. "Do you find your physical variation
accompanied by a proportionate variation in ideas, feelings,
and products? Or, among people who look more alike, do you
find their internal life and their work as similar?"
We were rather doubtful on this point, and inclined to hold
that there was more chance of improvement in greater physical
variation.
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