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family— The Bernouilli family— The Coligny family — The 

 Livingston family — The Dana family — The Bliss family — 

 The college graduate — Other American families — The 

 Conde family — Eminence continued through younger 

 branches — Eminent men and their sons— Cromwell — Eng- 

 lish aristocracy — Why descendants of men raised to peerage 

 do not maintain eminence — Burke's peerage — Primogeni- 

 ture — Difference between brothers — Result of one genera- 

 tion versus results of several generations. 



CHAPTER XII. 

 Races of Men 194 



The plea for early marriages — Galton's table of relative 

 births in the same family — Marrying ages of different 

 classes — Early reproduction and advantageous variation — 

 The Eskimos — The Digger Indians — The Fuegians — The 

 Patagonians — Andaman Islanders — The Bushmen — The 

 Hottentots — The Australians — The M'pongwes and Bor- 

 mus — The Moxos and Chiquitos — The Acawoias — The 

 Polynesians — The Egyptians — The Aboriginal Tribes of 

 India — The Touaregs and Kabyles — The Afghans — The 

 Chinese — Review of the Different Tribes — Results com- 

 pared with Lamarck's laws. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 Degeneracy 206 



Degeneracy defined — Experiments on rabbits — Degen- 

 erate children of parents who have suffered from sunstroke, 

 sickness or accident — Degenerate children of old parents — 

 Healthy and unhealthy development of parents — Children 

 of an old mother — The "Ishmael" family, their character 

 and their birth-ranks — The "Juke" family — Dugdale's con- 

 clusions — Crime and pauperism — Genesis of degeneracy — 

 Sexual intensity. 



