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brighter were his prospects of attaining distinction in the 

 Church. 



Rank in Percentage 



Oxford Examinations Distinguished 



First class 68 



Second " 37 



Third " 32 



Fourth " 29 



Pass degree 21 



No degree 9 



Of those who attained a first-class degree, 68 per cent ob- 

 tained ofl&cial distinction, etc. 



The results of the investigation as regards lawyers were 

 found to be very similar. The measure of success here was 

 taken to be the holding of public office under the government. 



Of the first class men, 46 % were so distinguished. 



« " second" " 33%. 



" « third " " 22%. 



" " fourth " " 20%. 

 Pass degree men, 16%. 



No degree men, 15 %. 



The general conclusion reached is that the " promise of 

 youth " as indicated by scholarship is in general justified by 

 the " performance of manhood " in the professions. The 

 objection might be offered that appointments in church and 

 state may be influenced by a man's university rank, but this 

 is offset by results obtained in America, where this is cer- 

 tainly not true. 



Insanity. Considerable work has been done in Pearson's 

 laboratory in the study of the heritability of insanity. David 

 Heron made a study of the inheritance of insanity as indi- 

 cated by three hundred and thirty-one family histories col- 

 lected during a period of thirty years by the superintendent 

 of an asylum patronized by middle-class people of Perth, 

 Scotland. See Table 34. 



If insanity is treated as due to one and the same thing in 

 all cases, it is obvious that the inheritance is not Mendelian; 

 i. e., insanity does not behave as a simple Mendelian unit- 

 character, either dominant or recessive. But that insanity 



