Eugenics / by Edgar Schuster.

  • Schuster, Edgar.
Date:
[1912]
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Credit: Eugenics / by Edgar Schuster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EUGENICS 39 poetical works dealt largely with natural history. One of them, called the Botanic Garden, included parts entitled The Lives of the Plants and the Economy of Vegetation. In his prose writings he propounded a theory of Evolution which had some points in common with that of Lamarck. Erasmus Darwin married twice; of his sons by the first wife, one, Dr Robert Darwin, was the father of Charles Darwin, the famous natural¬ ist, who in his turn became the father of many distinguished sons. A daughter by the second wife, who married Samuel Tertius Galton, was Francis Galton's mother. Samuel Tertius Galton was the eldest son, and carried on the banking business. He also had the taste for science and statistics shown by his father, and to a more marked degree by his son Francis. Francis Galton's early education was of a literary kind, conducted by an invalid sister considerably older than himself; but at the age of eight he was sent to a school at Boulogne, which was * hateful to him in many ways and lovable in none.' He stayed there for two years and then went on to a small private school at Kenilworth, from which, at the age of fourteen, he passed to King Edward's School at Birmingham. The education there was strictly classical. Grammar and the rudiments of Latin and Greek were taught, probably well, as many