ABSTRACT
WHATEVER we may think about the relative importance of nature and nurture or, more properly, of heredity and environment in the formation of eminent men, there cannot be any doubt that in Taussig’s case the two combined in a most happy alliance. Still more than we should in other cases, therefore, we feel that, in drawing the picture of the man, the citizen, the scholar, the teacher, and the
public servant-all of which was Taussig-we must adopt the biographer’s practice and first of all describe both his parental home and the two excellent people who created it.
