Lives & Memoirs
Hereditary Genius
Sir Francis Galton
2026
7h 15m$1.99
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Darwin's cousin decided ability ran in families, and set out to prove it with arithmetic. Galton counted the judges, the statesmen, the commanders, the scientists and the poets, traced their relations, and produced the founding text of a study that would go badly wrong. Brilliant, confident and disturbing, and essential for understanding what Victorian science thought it was measuring.
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24 chapters
- 1Preface35m
- 2Introductory Chapter7m
- 3Classification of Men According to Their Reputation13m
- 4Classification of Men According to Their Natural Gifts39m
- 5Comparison of the Two Classifications23m
- 6Notation6m
- 7The Judges of England Between 1660 and 186556m
- 8Statesmen9m
- 9English Peerages. Their Influence Upon Race21m
- 10Commanders15m
- 11Literary Men8m
- 12Men of Science12m
- 13Poets4m
- 14Musicians3m
- 15Painters4m
- 16Divines52m
- 17Senior Classics of Cambridge3m
- 18Oarsmen8m
- 19Wrestlers of the North Country2m
- 20Comparison of Results34m
- 21The Comparative Worth of Different Races27m
- 22Influences That Affect the General Ability of Nations22m
- 23General Considerations24m
- 24Appendix11m
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