"Galton" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with the results obtained by Professor Karl Pearson. Basing his conclusions on the correlation of stature between husband and wife, he believes that homogamy is a factor of fertility. Taking 205 marriages from Mr. Francis Galton's Family Records, Professor Pearson found the correlation between husband and wife to be .0931 - .0467, while weighted by their fertility the correlation was .1783 - .0210, practically doubling ...
— Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population • George B. Louis Arner
... long and difficult piece of work to compare the finger-prints we had taken with those photographed, in spite of the fact that writers descant on the ease with which criminals are traced by this system devised by the famous Galton. However, we at last finished the job between us; or rather Craig finished it, with an occasional remark from me. His dexterity amazed me; it was ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... person," writes Galton (190), "meets with no compassion; he is pushed out of his hut by his relations away from the fire into the cold; they do all they can to expedite his death, and when he appears to be dying, they heap oxhides over him till he is suffocated. Very few Damaras ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... strict line of demarcation differentiating the three methods of heating, as it is possible that a radiant heat may at the same time be conductive as well as convective—as is the case in the Galton fireplace, etc. ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) • Various
... Printed by permission of Mr. Arthur Galton, to whom the Poem was given in 1886 for ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... in the early stages of language these relations were presented in an extrinsic form by phonetic signs, and became images which in some sort represented one particular state of consciousness with respect to the two things compared. Galton, speaking of the Damaras, tells us that they find great difficulty in counting more than five, since they have not another hand with which to grasp the fingers which represent the units. When they lose any of their cattle, they do not discover the loss by the diminution of the number, but by ...
— Myth and Science - An Essay • Tito Vignoli
... Galton says: "I have desired to show how whole states of mental operation that have lapsed out of ordinary consciousness, admit ...
— A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga • Yogi Ramacharaka
... dissipated in futile searches might be utilized in connecting the scattered links, because the study of genealogy is the ancient form of the very modern inquiries into heredity which interest so many followers of Mr. Francis Galton. It is after all worth knowing who were the ancestors of William Shakespeare, what heroic, chivalric, poetic, philosophic strains went to form the nature of the perfect poet; and it is of mildly sentimental interest to us that we should know ...
— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes
... to those who yield to fits of passion, there is a class whose criminal promptings are hereditary: a large number of unfortunates of whom it may almost be said that they were destined to commit crimes. 'It is unhappily a fact,' says Mr. Francis Galton ('Inquiries into Human Faculty'), 'that fairly distinct types of criminals breeding true to their kind have become established.' And he gives extraordinary examples, which fully bear out his affirmation. We may safely say that, in a very large number of cases, the worst crimes are ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke
... On Mr. Galton's topic of hereditary talent I have little to report as to myself. Neither father nor mother had any leanings either towards verse or prose; but my mother was an excellent pianiste and a fair landscape painter both in oils and water-colour; also she drew and ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper |
