circumstantial report

A highly circumstantial report on Asia that expects a glorious future for the continent as the world power center; by two staff members of The New York Times who both did duty as Times correspondents in Asia.

These circumstantial reports seemed to confirm the ancient idea of telegony in heritability: Charles Darwin cited the example in On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868).