"It certainly should be," Zava admitted. "We have always
thought it a grave initial misfortune to have lost half our
little world. Perhaps that is one reason why we have so striven
for conscious improvement."
"But acquired traits are not transmissible," Terry declared.
"Weissman has proved that."
They never disputed our absolute statements, only made
notes of them.
"If that is so, then our improvement must be due either to
mutation, or solely to education," she gravely pursued. "We
certainly have improved. It may be that all these higher qualities
were latent in the original mother, that careful education is
bringing them out, and that our personal differences depend on
slight variations in prenatal condition."
"I think it is more in your accumulated culture," Jeff suggested.
"And in the amazing psychic growth you have made. We know very little
about methods of real soul culture--and you seem to know a great deal."
Be that as it might, they certainly presented a higher level of
active intelligence, and of behavior, than we had so far really
grasped.
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