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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.
This book was written in 1916 and so predates the discovery and unravelling of DNA and the identification of the individual genes within it. The author discusses the age-old 'nature nurture' debate, though here he uses the terms heredity and environment.
Excerpt from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics The writer recalls that when he was a young boy, he heard the grown-up people in the community earnestly and incessantly debating the question: Does heredity play a greater part in shaping one's mind and body than does his environment? From that day to this he has listened to men and women in every walk of life discussing the relation of heredity to environment in determining human traits. Teachers and parents are constantly asking: "Are such and such characteristics in my children due to their inheritance or to the way they have been trained?" Students of juvenile delinquency and of mental defect and deficiency are searching everywhere for light on this matter. It is not to be wondered at that practically all people are peculiarly interested in this problem, since it concerns intimately one's personal traits, and it constantly confronts any one who is responsible for the care and culture of the young. It is suggestive to note how people differ in their views regarding the extent to which a child's physical and mental qualities and capacities are fixed definitely by his inheritance. The writer has often heard students in university classes discuss the subject; and their handling of the problem has shown how superficially and even superstitiously most persons regard the mechanism and functions of heredity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... itary tendency to twins on the mother's side. I have noticed, however, that the first colt of a young well matured mare of five or six years old is generally a stud colt, especially if she catches at first mating; and, if a mare aborts or loses her colt at suckling time, that the next colt is generally a stud colt. I sometimes have thought that the secretions from the cells that nourish the germ cells govern the inclinations, either male or female. When this discovery is once made, we shall have only full male and full females of the I and II combinations born, or close to them; no more "sissies," no more "tom-boys," and our vigor, as a nation, in mental and physical stamina, will be on the ascendency, provided laws are passed preventing the marriage of defectives and diseased persons. CONTRIBUTION OF HORSEMEN TO EUGENICS. To the Trotting Horsemen, more than anyone else, is due the advancement this HORSEMEN AND EUGENICS 21 country is now making in eugenics. It was Governor Lei and Stanford, owner of "Electioneer," and the great Palo Alto Farm, who placed David Starr Jordan at the head of Stanford University, with unlimited funds, to carry out his ideas on breeding and heredity. The trotting horse indutsry has in the United States and Canada, perhaps, a million or more persons financially or otherwise interested in its success. It has six or seven weekly papers entirely devoted to its interests, and in every big city there are one or more daily papers that give a column or part of a column each week to matters relating to the trotting horse. The Grand Circuit consists of about fourteen large tracks. In addition to these, there are over 900 other tracks with their smaller circuits which work independently of each other and of the Grand...
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