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Heredity. 



Mr. Galton distributes into seven groups the remarkable men who 

 have been the objects of his investigations statesmen, generals, 

 men of letters, men of science, artists, poets, and divines. He 

 pursues the method already indicated. He sets out from the 

 hypothesis of 100 families studied, modifying his results according 

 to circumstances ; for example, when his researches have extended 

 to only twenty, twenty-five, or fifty families, he multiplies his 

 results by five, four, or two. Thus he is enabled to institute a 

 direct comparison between the various groups. These results are 

 given in the following table, with the addition of the group already 

 considered, that of the judges : 



TABLE II. 



We will not follow our author through the extended observations 

 he makes on each column and on each of its figures, nor through 

 the remarks, often ingenious, often very problematical, which he 

 makes with a view to explain whatever differs overmuch from the 

 average. There is no question but that, if we omit columns six 

 and seven (poets and artists), which present some singular devia- 

 tions, we cannot fail to be struck with the resemblance between 

 the figures here compared. The impression made by the table 

 will be still more striking if we compare the first column, that of 



