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This law of heredity is the great law that determines the species and genera in the animal and plant world and also in the physical human world. This law of species and genus, this law of heredity and development, is the law of destiny for species and genera. Only in accordance with the law of heredity can the individual being function. Very similar is what the individual human being experiences as pleasure and pain in relation to his or her prevailing destiny. Just as animals have inherited the form of their genus from their ancestors, so we encounter human beings in a very specific way, endowed with predispositions and character traits that determine the extent of their pleasure and pain, that contain the measure of these, and that determine their life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IX. 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