Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences / by Francis Galton.

  • Galton, Francis, 1822-1911.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences / by Francis Galton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    It is, however, quite another matter with respect to brain power, for, as I shall have occasion to show, the Uni- versities attract to themselves a large proportion of the eminent scholastic talent of all England. There are nearly half a million males in Great Britain who arrive each year at the proper age for going to the University : therefore, if Cambridge, for example, received only one in every five of the ablest scholastic intellects, she would be able, in every period of ten years, to boast of the fresh arrival of an undergraduate, the rank of whose scholastic eminence was that of one in a million.