His own desire repulsed him. Though if he could not aspire to purity, then he was sufficiently aware of what his mother and certain others might think, not to give in to baseness.

Every branch vigorously growing on the main stem drawing fecundity from the sap produces leaves, flowers and fruit, but every branch which either from accident, sickness, or refusal to draw from the parent stem. separates itself from the inherited life-source, dooms itself to wither and die.

The resulting feud between Hoffman and the Weiders, where money, power, and ego were at stake, consumed about two decades, as both parties vied for control of muscledom.

The hereditary types, paranœa, etc., as a rule, decreased, but insane inventors were especially numerous, and this fact is readily explained ; for the time being the healthy idea of fighting the foreign foe dominated the insane conceptions of most paranœacs, but the insane idea of fighting him by inventions was directly suggested, so that this type of paranœacs found themselves out of accord with their surroundings, and were regarded as insane.