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a new combination of the characteristics of
father and mother, and also by natural selection
in the struggle for existence. We must
be careful before beginning to act in a social
and political way on the basis of anthropological
motives. He finally lays down with
perfect justice, that the material to be
gathered from the works of Spencer, Galton,
Lombroso, Ferri, Ribot, Latourneau, Havelock
Ellis, J. B. Haycraft, Colajanni, Sergi,
Ritchie, and others, must be systematically
worked over. The sociologist must be
zoölogist, anthropologist, and psychologist
before his plans for civilising man, and for
elevating the human race could be carried
out.
As to intellectual characteristics it has been
maintained that exceptionally gifted men have
mostly inherited their characteristics from the
mother. This fact has in our day, so very
much increased the interest taken in the
mothers of famous men. This truth is
supposed to hold good for a son, but if the
daughter is gifted, her talent is held to come
from the father. Another and certainly a
better founded phenomenon seems to be this:
That when in a family characteristics find their
culmination in a world genius, this genius
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