 | 1885 - Страниц: 852
...if he has a son who overpasses him. The law is even-handed; it levies the same heavy succession tax on the transmission of badness as well as of goodness....that the most probable deviate of the midparentage is £, or i J that of the son. The number of individuals in a population who differ little from mediocrity... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1885 - Страниц: 624
...extravagant expectations of gifted parents that their children will inherit all their powers, it no leas discountenances extravagant fears that they will inherit...the most probable deviate of the mid-parentage is j, or 1^ that of the son. The number of individuals in a population who differ little from mediocrity... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1885 - Страниц: 616
...has a son who equals him, and still more if he has a son who overpasses him. The law is evenhaniled: it levies the same heavy succession-tax on the transmission...fears that they will inherit all their weaknesses and disThe converse of this law is very far from heing its numerical opposite. Because the most probable... | |
 | 1886 - Страниц: 574
...average height of the children of known parents can be mechanically reckoned (see Plate IX, fig. ft). This law tells heavily against the full hereditary...the most probable deviate of the mid-parentage is |-, or 1^ that of the son. The number of individuals in a population who differ little from mediocrity... | |
 | 1886 - Страниц: 922
...he has a son who overpasses him. This law is even-handed ; it levies the same heavy possession-tax on the transmission of badness as well as of goodness....will inherit all their weaknesses and diseases. The number of individuals in a population who differ little from mediocrity h so preponderant that it is... | |
 | Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1887 - Страниц: 794
...is even-handed ; it levies the same heavy succession tax on the transmission of badness as well as goodness. If it discourages the extravagant expectations...they will inherit all their weaknesses and diseases." * * * ""Let it not be supposed for a moment that" the "figures invalidate the general doctrine that... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1889 - Страниц: 578
...handed ; it levies the same heavy succession tax on ' the transmission of badness as well as goodnesa. If ' it discourages the extravagant expectations of...will inherit all their weaknesses and ' diseases. . . . Let it not for a moment be supposed ' that the figures invalidate the general doctrine that '... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1892 - Страниц: 398
...goodness. If it discourages the extravagant hope of a gifted parent that his children will inherit all his powers, it no less discountenances extravagant fears that they will inherit all his weakness and disease." The study of individual inheritance, as in Galton's Hereditary Genius, may... | |
 | 1896 - Страниц: 978
...is even-handed ; it levies the same heavy succession tax on the transmission of badness as well as goodness. If it discourages the extravagant expectations...they will inherit all their weaknesses and diseases. . . . Let it not for a moment be supposed that the figures invalidate the general doctrine that the... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1912 - Страниц: 848
...goodness. If it discourages the extravagant hopes of a gifted parent that his children will inherit all his powers, it no less discountenances extravagant fears that they will inherit all his weakness and disease" (p. 106). Prof. Karl Pearson (' The Grammar of Science,' 2nd ed., p. 479)... | |
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But the law is even-handed; it levies an equal succession-tax on the transmission of badness as of goodness. If it discourages the extravagant hopes of a gifted parent that his children will inherit all his powers; it no less discountenances extravagant... 
