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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. 



