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the 41 very first men in Classics at Cambridge in 

 each of these 41 years were known and published. 

 It will be sufficient as an example to give the names 

 of 7 of these Senior Classics, all of whom had a 

 father, brother, or son whose success was as notable 

 as their own (I count a Senior Wrangler as equal 

 to a Senior Classic). They are : 3 Kennedys, 

 2 Lushingtons, i Wordsworth, and i Butler. This 

 fact alone would justify a serious attempt to inquire 

 into Hereditary Ability, and I soon found the power 

 of heredity to be as fully displayed in every other 

 direction towards which I turned. The Myttons 

 mentioned in Chapter VIII. were an unquestionable 

 instance of a very peculiar hereditary temperament. 



After many months of hard work, I wrote, in 1865, 

 two preliminary papers in Mac-millans Magazine, 

 entitled "Hereditary Talent and Character" [20]. 

 These contain the germs of many of my subsequent 

 memoirs, the contents of which went to the making 

 of the following books: Hereditary Genius, 1869; 

 English Men of Science, 1874; Human Faculty, 

 1883 ; Natural Inheritance, 1889 ; and to my quite 

 recent writings on Eugenics. On re-reading these 

 articles, I must say that, considering the novel 

 conditions under which they were composed, and 

 notwithstanding some crudeness here and there, I am 

 surprised at their justness and comprehensiveness. 

 It has fortunately been my usual habit (sometimes 

 omitted) of keeping copies of my various memoirs, 

 which are now bound in volumes. There are con- 

 siderably more than a hundred and seventy publica- 

 tions in all, as will be gathered from the not wholly 

 complete list in the Appendix, and I am pleased to 

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