 | William Collins (picture-dealer.) - 1805 - 260 pagina’s
...definition of some of the greatest masters of human intellect, upon the word Genius. t)ryden defines it—" Mental power or faculties ; disposition of nature, by which any one is qualified for some particular employment." " A happy genius is the gift of nature," says the same inspired writer.... | |
 | William Collins - 1805 - 266 pagina’s
...of some of the greatest masters of human intellect, upon the word Genius. Pry den defines it — " Mental power or faculties ; disposition of nature, by which any one is qualified for some particular employment." " A happy genius is the gift of nature," says the same inspired writer.... | |
 | John Walker - 1807 - 1108 pagina’s
...s. The protecting or ruling power of men, places or things ; a man endowed with superior faculties ; mental power or faculties ; disposition of nature by which any one is qualified for some peculiar employment ; nature, disposition. GKNTEEL, jen-teel'. a. Polite, elegant in behaviour,... | |
 | John Walker - 1819 - 800 pagina’s
...The protecting or ruling power of men, places or things ; a man endowed with superiour faculties : mental power or faculties ; disposition of nature by which any one is qualified for some peculiar employment nature, disposition. GENTEEL, j<?n-tPPl'. a. Polite, elegant in be haviour,... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 710 pagina’s
...The protecting or ruling power of men. place), or tilings ; a man endowed with superiour faculties; mental power or faculties ; disposition of nature by which any one is qualified for torn* peculiar employment ; nature, disposition. GENTEEL, j en-tiil! a. PolMe, elegant In behaviour,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1828 - 860 pagina’s
...The protecting or ruling power of men, places, or things ; a man endowed with superiour faculties ; mental power or faculties ; disposition of nature by which any one is qualified for some peculiar employment ; nature ; disposition. GENTEEL, (jen-teel') o. Polite ; elegant in behaviour... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - 1906 - 428 pagina’s
..." in the same sense in which Galton used it in his work, Hereditary Genius, viz., in the sense of " mental power or faculties ; disposition of nature by which any one is qualified for some peculiar employment," as denned in Johnson's Dictionary, not agreeing with Galton that there... | |
 | Roger Geiger - 1982 - 176 pagina’s
...word "genius" not necessarily to describe someone of great intellectual powers, but rather anyone with "an ability that was exceptionally high, and at the same time inborn" (Galton, ibid., p. viii), "an equivalent for natural ability" (Galton, ibid., p. ix). Under such a... | |
 | Adam Kuper - 1994 - 290 pagina’s
...young man exploring, in Galton's case in Africa. His book Hereditary Genius (1869) denned genius as "an ability that was exceptionally high and at the same time inborn," thus introducing the debate about the definition and her! lability of intelligence. He was also the... | |
 | Ronald J. Samuda - 1998 - 300 pagina’s
...1n Hereditary Genius — a title that he explained in the prefatory chapter to the 1892 edition as an "ability that was exceptionally high and at the same time, inborn" — Galton (1869/1962) proposed to show that genius tends to run in families (a small number of families)... | |
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... 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,... 
