The principles of heredity with some applications / by G. Archdall Reid.

  • Reid, G. Archdall (George Archdall O'Brien), Sir, 1860-1929.
Date:
1906
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Credit: The principles of heredity with some applications / by G. Archdall Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BY THE SAME AUTHOR ALCOHOLISM: A STUDY IN HEREDITY. By G. ARCHDALL REID, M.B., C.M., F.R.S.E. Author of “ The Present Evolution of Man.” PRICE 6s. NET. “Mr. G. Arclidall Reid has gone far to demonstrate, if indeed he has not completely demonstrated, that the bulk of existing temperance effort and legislation is quite wrongly conceived, futile, and probably positively disastrous in its ultimate tendency. . . . The method of broad generalization employed by Mr. Reid necessarily opens many issues beyond that on which his arguments are centred. His discussion of the influence of infectious and contagious diseases on the spread of the Anglo-Saxon race, for example, is brilliantly compact and clear. For many this book should be as richly suggestive as any book I know. It is not only the exposition of the attitude of a certain school of scientific men, the legitimate successors of Darwin and Huxley, towards a very typical public question, but it is an example of the general method of the school. It is, indeed, a very notable book.”—Mr. H. G. Wells in The Morning Post. “For the arguments by which Dr. Reid seeks to establish his opinions we must refer the reader to the volume which contains them, and in which they are stated with great force and clearness, and supported by a large amount of evidence conveniently disposed in appendices. The chain is not free from defective links ; but the book contains ample food for reflection, and can hardly fail to lead to the reconsideration of many popularly accepted views.”—The Times. “ Mr. Reid has certainly succeeded in writing a remarkable and startling book. . . . This interesting, well-informed, and in parts almost brilliantly-written book. . . . Mr. Reid lays bare some of the terrible evils of civilization with so much honesty, skill, and courage.” —The Daily News. “A vigorous and refreshing contribution to the interminable drink controversy has been made by Mr. G. Archdall Reid. ... He wields the Darwinian cudgel with no feeble hand ; and knocks down a good many time-honoured but flabby old fallacies in a merciless fashion.’’ —The Standard. “ Of the ability with which, step by step, he builds up his argument, this bald summary conveys no idea. Neither does it convey an idea of the concentrated passion with which at times he enforces it. Whatever the faults of the book may be—and some of the scientific questions raised will hardly be allowed to pass unchallenged—it cannot be charged with being dull.”—The Sheffield Telegraph. “ A thoughtful scientific study, the result of which, if perhaps likely to startle an orthodox temperance reformer, will scarcely surprise those who have approached the consideration of the subject without prejudice.”—The Scotsman. “ A paradoxical book, but highly interesting.”—The Spectator. “ Startling, full of original thought and daring suggestion . . . will be popular with all classes of society—scientists will welcome it, to medical men it is an education, and to the general public it presents the whole subject of evolution and natural selection in a manner that has never before been accomplished.”—Dr. A. Mearns Fraser in The Portsmouth Evening News. “An epoch-making book. . . . It is a striking production; beyond question the most important contribution to the evolution theory since 1 The Origin of Species ’ and ‘ Descent of Man.’ ”—Southern Daily Mail. “ Peculiarly interesting . . . pursued with a daring and brilliant persistency.”— The New York Journal. “ Dr. Archdall Reid may properly be called a strong writer. He has an easy flow of somewhat forcible language, he sets his ideas before his readers in quite unequivocal terms, and his ideas are fairly crisp and definite. . . . This book is a veritable trailing of the coat in the Donnybrook Fair of teetotal controversy, and we shall be considerably surprised if some of our total abstinence friends do not tread on the tail of it.”—The Hospital. “ Well known as a thinker, intrepid and audacious in his originality, lucid and peculiarly attractive in logical force and the daring presentation of his opinions.—Dr. J. N. Kelyxack in The Temperance Record. London : T. FISHER UNWIN, Paternoster Square, E.C.