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

  • Francis Galton
Date:
1892
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    sonnets that “breathe a warm spirit of piety, though they cannot be mentioned as finished poetical composi- tions.” He laboured in preaching and writing till almost the time of his death. He left a large family (his father was one of thirty-three children), of whom three sons were ministers of the Secession, but died in the prime of life. joined with great judgment, made a very uncommon mixture. His industry was indefatigable. He was descended from a race of ministers for four generations, and, excepting one interruption, quite up to the Refor- mation; say six generations in all. North.” Was one of several children. He showed extraordinary genius in childhood, and an early dis- position to seriousness and contemplative life; but as he grew older he became practical and energetic, and none the less.pious. He was greatly beloved. In beginning his career he suffered from religious per- secution, and if Queen Mary had lived a little longer, there is little doubt but that he would have been martyred. He remained rector of Houghton during the whole of his later life, refusing a bishopric. He built a school, and picked up intelligent boys and educated them, and became their friend and guardian in after-life. He had extraordinary influence over the wild border- people of his neighbourhood, going fearlessly among them. He was affluent and generous; a hater of slander and a composer of differences. He was tall and slender, careless of amusement, and rather abstemious. Was unmarried. His relationships are good, but distant. men of his time. thence by the Act of Uniformity. pastor and good schoolmaster, was [PS.] to Richard and the biographer of Bernard Gilpin. I know nothing about the intervening relations; I wish I did, for I should expect to find that the Gilpin blood had produced other noteworthy results.
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