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The materialists stretch the tenet of heredity to an irrational degree. No man merely reproduces the characteristics of his parents or of his distant forefathers. The differences exist and are plain in most cases. On the contrary, there is always some variation which separates him from his ancestry, always something original to himself. And this is explicable only on a basis of reincarnation.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 2 : Rebirth and Reincarnation > # 26