Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and ConsequencesMacmillan, 1869 - 390 pages |
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Page 188 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 1 - I propose to show in this book that a man's natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as are the form and physical features of the whole organic world.
Page 96 - His brother, Sir George, was at the same time the president of the highest court of civil law, as dean of the Arches and judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury...
Page 14 - I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort.
Page 347 - If his nature revolts against the monotony of daily labour, he is tempted to the public-house, to intemperance, and, it may be, to poaching, and to much more serious crime : otherwise he banishes himself from our shores. In the first case, he is unlikely to leave as many children as men of more domestic and marrying habits, and, in the second case, his breed is wholly lost to England. By this steady riddance of the Bohemian spirit of our race, the artisan part of our population is slowly becoming...
Page 332 - A collection of living magnates in various branches of intellectual achievement is always a feast to my eyes ; being, as they are, such massive, vigorous, capable-looking animals.
Page 25 - ... per cent, have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man...
Page 264 - When I further demanded an account of that answer, he told me she was the daughter of a gentleman whom he much respected, Mr. George Winniff of Bretenham ; that out of an opinion had of the fitness of that match for me he had already treated with her father about it, whom he found very apt to entertain it ; advising me not to neglect the opportunity, and not concealing the just praises of the modesty, piety, good disposition, and other virtues, that were lodged in that seemly presence. I listened...
Page 342 - It follows from all this, that the average ability of the Athenian race is, on the lowest possible estimate, very nearly two grades higher than our own — that is, about as much as our race is above that of the African negro.