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- noun The quality of being
able-minded .
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Although the trait of able-mindedness is dominant, so that the mating of an able and a feeble mind will result in fairly able-minded offspring, who may even be above the average, mentally, such offspring carry in their own germ plasm the defect derived from their feeble-minded parent, which defect may then be passed on to future generations through the germ plasm from which their children get their inheritance.
How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907
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