And the germ-cell may devour any amount of egg-protoplasma without losing its original paternal energy. tube8 And many qualities of certain individual ancestors appear quite suddenly late in life. The sex functions, when properly controlled and led into the proper channels, are a most essential and legitimate form of physical self-expression. To a large extent, however, children and adolescents are still taught to look on all that pertains to sex as something shameful and immodest, something not to be discussed. It is in the same way that food eaten by the adult has absolutely no effect on his qualitative organic structure. Sex and the part it plays in human life cannot be ignored. The inherited energies retain their full measure of power, and all their original quality in the growing and dividing chromosomes (the chromosome is one of the segments into which the chromoplasmic filaments of a cell-nucleus break up just before indirect division).
