A genetic defect in a child, like lameness or blindness, he said, was not due to any defect in the mother or the father, but in the ovum or sperm of the parents which is today an accepted fact.

• 他说，一个孩子身上的遗传缺点，例如是跛足，或者是失明，并不是归因于母亲或父亲的任何过失，而是双亲的卵子或精液中今天所接受的真相。