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Updated: June 1, 2025
Weissman went to the bridge, and at 2 a.m. the wires were slipped and we started on a ten days' trip.
Weissman is evidently as cautious in this matter as he is hardy in others; the more I see of him the more I like him; he is a man of breeding, and it is of value to serve in this boat. As I write we are on the surface about ten miles east of the Isle of Wight, still steering down channel.
So she is armed, thought I, and she has actually opened fire on us first. The effect of this unexpected retort on the part of the Englishman was to throw Weissman into a paroxysm of rage. "Why don't you fire? What the devil are you waiting for?" etc., etc., were some of the remarks he flung at the gun crew.
Everything the individual acquires during his lifetime is his own possession, which he may use and develop to the utmost extent, but it dies with him. His children, born after he possesses it, can no more inherit it than those born before. Weissman expressed this in his famous statement that "There is no inheritance of acquired characters."
I remained on deck watching the rapidly receding whaler through my glasses until she was a mere speck alone on the ocean, 150 miles from land, Then the navigator came up, and with strangely mixed feelings of exultant joy and depressing sorrow I went below. Von Weissman was in the wardroom. I watched him unobserved.
I have discovered that Von Weissman is a martyr to sea-sickness all day he has been lying down as white as a sheet and subsisting on milk tablets and sips of brandy; yet such is the man's inflexibility of will that he forces himself to make a tour of inspection right round the boat every six hours, night and day.
The egg cell and the sperm cell fuse together. There are as many possibilities now as there were in either parent, but not all the potentialities of both parents. Half the possibilities of each have been thrown away, and hence cannot appear in the offspring. By this constant process we get, in every generation, new combinations of qualities. This is the main cause, says Weissman, for variations.
"You Lieutenant Von Schenk?" I admitted I was, and then heard this disgusting news. "Kranz, 1st Lieutenant U.39, reported suddenly ill, Zeebrugge, poisoning you relieve him. Ship sails in one hour forty minutes from now my car leaves here in forty minutes and takes you to Zeebrugge. Here are operation orders inform Von Weissman he acknowledges receipt direct to me on 'phone. That's all."
Weissman asserts that he has seen inside the nucleus all the machinery necessary to explain how the father hands over his qualities to his children. He insists, equally strongly, that this process is such that no father can hand to his child any qualities which he himself did not have at least in potentiality at his birth.
In other words, even those who are not followers of Weissman, have accepted the idea that there is little inheritance of acquired characters. Yet they return to the belief that somehow, in some way as yet unexplainable, the main cause for variation in animals lies in the situation in which they live, and tends toward better adaptation to that situation.
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