Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws And ConsequencesCosimo, Inc., 1 dec 2005 - 432 pagina's 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. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.-from "Classification of Men According to Their Natural Gifts"One of the greatest names in Victorian science, Francis Galton has been all but forgotten in the popular culture, but his work on philosophy of genetics and the inheritability of human characteristics broke new ground in the late 19th century. With this 1869 book (along with his 1889 work Natural Inheritance), he founded an entirely new scientific discipline, one that approached human biology with a systematic rigor as he explored the degree of "eminence" among British men and determined that intelligence and accomplishment were inheritable. Though some of Galton's work has been dismissed because of its causal connection to the deplorable applications of eugenics programs in the 20th century, this remains an important work in the history of biological science. "I do not think I ever in all my life read anything more interesting and original" Charles Darwin said about this extraordinary book.Among his many significant accomplishments, British scientist SIR FRANCIS GALTON (1822-1911) was an explorer, a geographer, a statistician, and inventor of fingerprint identification. In addition to more than 300 scientific papers, he wrote the books Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (1853), Finger Prints (1893), Memories of My Life (1908), and others. |
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Comparison of the Two Classifications | 77 |
Notation | 89 |
The Judges of England Between 1660 and 1865 | 95 |
Statesmen | 149 |
English Peerages Their Influence upon Race | 177 |
Poets | 260 |
Musicians | 291 |
Divines | 312 |
Senior Classics of Cambridge | 353 |
Oarsmen | 359 |
Wrestlers of the North Country | 366 |
The Comparative Worth of Different Races | 392 |
Influences that Affect the Natural Ability of Nations | 405 |
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Pagina 46 - 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.
Pagina 57 - 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.
Pagina 27 - ... who in 1869 published a book with the title Hereditary Genius. By the time he had corrected the edition of 1892 he had seen the error of his ways and explained that the original title was an obvious misnomer for the more modest Hereditary Ability, since he did not use the word genius in its usual sense, but merely as expressing an ability that was exceptionally high, and at the same time inborn.
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