Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Its Laws and Consequences (Classic Reprint) - pocketboek

I PRoroSE to show in this book that a man's natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as arc the form and physical features of the whole organic world. Consequently, as it is easy, notwithstanding those limitations, to obtain by careful selection a permanent breed of dogs or horses gifted with peculiar powers of running, or of doing anything else, so it would be quite practicable to produce a highly-gifted race of men by judicious marriages during several consecutive generations. I shall show that social agencies of an ordinary character, whose influences are little suspected, arc at this moment working towards the degradation of human nature, and that others are working towards its improvement. I conclude" that each generation has enormous power over the natural gifts of those that follow, and maintain that it is a duty we owe to humanity to investigate the range of that power, and to exercise it in a way that, without being unwise towards ours

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER 1; CLASSIFICATION OF MEN ACCORDING TO THEIR REPUTATION 5; CLASSIFICATION OF MEN ACCORDING TO THEIR NATURAL GIFTS 12; COMPARISON OF THE TWO CLASSIFICATIONS 33; NOTATION 44; THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND BETWEEN 1660 AND 18G5 49; STATESMEN 98; ENGLISH PEERAGES, THEIR INFLUENCE UPON RACE 123; COMMANDERS 134; LITERARY MEN 160; MEN OF SCIENCE 185; POETS 218; MUSICIANS 230; PAINTERS 239; DIVINES 249; SENIOR CLASSICS OF CAMBRIDGE 289; OARSMEN 296; WRESTLERS OF THE NORTH COUNTRY 303; COMPARISON OF RESULTS 307; THE COMPARATIVE WORTH OF DIFFERENT RACES 325; INFLUENCES THAT AFFECT THE NATURAL ABILITY OF NATIONS 338; GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 349; APPENDIX 362; INDEX 369

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