[239] “On the Laws of the Fertility of Women,” in ‘Transact. Royal Soc.’ Edinburgh, vol. xxiv. p. 287. See, also, Mr. Galton, ‘Hereditary Genius,’ p. 352-357, for observations to the above effect.
[240] ‘Tenth Annual Report of Births, Deaths, &c., in Scotland,’ 1867, p. xxix.
[241] These quotations are taken from our highest authority on such questions, namely, Dr. Farr, in his paper “On the Influence of Marriage on the Mortality of the French People,” read before the Nat. Assoc. for the Promotion of Social Science, 1858.
[242] Dr. Farr, ibid. The quotations given below are extracted from the same striking paper.
[243] I have taken the mean of the quinquennial means, given in ‘The Tenth Annual Report of Births, Deaths, &c., in Scotland,’ 1867. The quotation from Dr. Stark is copied from an article in the ‘Daily News,’ Oct. 17th, 1868, which Dr. Farr considers very carefully written.
[244] See the ingenious and original argument on this subject by Mr. Galton, ‘Hereditary Genius,’ p. 340-342.
[245] Mr. Greg, ‘Fraser’s Magazine,’ Sept. 1868, p. 357.
[246] ‘Hereditary Genius,’ 1870, p. 357-359. The Rev. F. H. Farrar (‘Fraser’s Mag.’, Aug. 1870, p. 257) advances arguments on the other side. Sir C. Lyell had already (‘Principles of Geology,’ vol. ii. 1868, p. 489) called attention, in a striking passage, to the evil influence of the Holy Inquisition in having lowered, through selection, the general standard of intelligence in Europe.
[247] Mr. Galton, ‘Macmillan’s Magazine,’ August, 1865, p. 325. See, also, ‘Nature,’ “On Darwinism and National Life,” Dec. 1869, p. 184.
[248] ‘Last Winter in the United States,’ 1868, p. 29.