The assertion, that acquired habitudes or instincts, and acquired structures, are not heritable, any breeder or good observer can refute.

" "Besides, Thomas Roch is used to him, and I don't propose to make him change his habitudes in any way.

For the ideas that ethics are conversant about, being all real essences, and such as I imagine have a discoverable connexion and agreement one with another; so far as we can find their habitudes and relations, so far we shall be possessed of certain, real, and general truths; and I doubt not

When we got to La Clairière we were ready to sink down with fatigue like all the restnay, even more than the rest, for we were not used to it, and for my part I had altogether lost the habitude of long walks.

Sometimes the world in which she lived displayed itself before her horrified inward vision like some intolerable and meaningless piece of clock-work mechanism: J'admirais hier au soir la nombreuse compagnie qui était chez moi; hommes et femmes me paraissaient des machines à ressorts, qui allaient, venaient, parlaient, riaient, sans penser, sans réfléchir, sans sentir; chacun jouait son rôle par habitude:

It's just that Joel Strides, and Daniel the miller, and the rest o' them that fleed, the past night, have gane into their ain abodes, and have lighted their fires, and put over their pots and kettles, and set up their domestic habitudes, a' the same as if this Beaver Dam was ain o' the pairks o' Lonnon!"