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

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 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    theory. I venture to speak with assurance, because it has often occurred to me to propose this very test to incre- dulous friends, and invariably, so far as my memory serves me, as large a proportion of the men who were named were discovered to have eminent relations, as the nature of my views on heredity would have led me to expect.