Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences / by Francis Galton.

  • Francis Galton
Date:
1892
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    toutes les piéces qui font le tissu de ces huit volumes, ont révélé une race 4 part des caractéres d’une origi- nalité grandiose et haute, d’oi notre Mirabeau n’a eu qu’a descendre pour se répandre ensuite, pour se pré- cipiter comme il l’a fait et se distribuer 4 tous, telle- ment qu’on peut dire qwil n’a été que l’enfant perdu, Venfant prodigue et sublime de sa race.” He combined his paternal qualities with those of his mother :— “Ce n’était suivant la définition de son pére qu'un male monstreux au physique et au moral. “Tl tenait de sa mére la largeur du visage, les instincts, les appétits prodigues et sensuels, mais probablement aussi ce certain fond gaillard et gaulois, cette faculté de se familiariser et de s’ humaniser que les Riquetti n’avaient pas, et qui deviendra un des moyens de sa puissance. “Une nature riche, ample, copieuse, généreuse, souvent grossiére et vicée, souvent fine aussi, noble, méme élé- gante, et, en somme, pas du tout monstreuse, mais des plus humaines.” More, Sir Thomas; Lord Chancellor (Henry VIII.) ; eminent statesman and writer ; singularly amiable, unaffectedly pious, and resolute to death. When et. 13, the Dean of St. Paul’s used to say of him, “There was but one wit in England, and that was young More.” F. Sir John More, Just. K. B. [S. and 3 s.] Besides his three accomplished daughters, Margaret Roper, Elizabeth Dauncy, and Cecilia Heron, Sir Thomas More had one son called John. Too much has been said of the want of capacity of this son. His father commended the purity of his Latin more than that of his daughters, and Grynzeus (see wnder Divines) dedicated to him an edition of Plato, while Erasmus inscribed to him the works of Aristotle. He had enough strength of character to deny the king’s supremacy, and on that account he lay for some time in the Tower under sentence of death. (“Life of More,” by Rev. Joseph Hunter, 1828, Preface, p. xxxvi.) Richelieu, Armand J. du Plessis, Cardinal Duc de. The great minister of France under Louis XIV. He was educated for arms, but devoted himself to study, and entered the Church at a very early age—earlier than was legal—and became Doctor. At. 39 he was chief
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