CHAPTER IX 



THE ARTISTIC FACULTY. 



Data. — Sexual Distribution. — Marriage Selection. — Regression. — Effect of 

 Bias in Marriage. 



Data. — It is many years since I described the family 

 history of the great Painters and Musicians in Here- 

 ditary Genius. The inheritance of much less excep- 

 tional gifts of Artistic Faculty will be discussed in this 

 chapter, and from an entirely different class of data. 

 They are the answers in my RF.F collection, to the 

 question of " Favourite pursuits and interests ? Artistic 

 aptitudes ? " 



The list of persons who were signalised as being 

 especially fond of music and drawing, no doubt 

 includes many who are artistic in a very moderate 

 degree. Still they form a fairly well defined class, 

 and one that is easy to discuss because their family 

 history is complete. In this respect, they are much 

 more suitable subjects for statistical inquiry than the 

 great Painters and Musicians, whose biographers usually 

 say little or nothing of their non-artistic relatives. 



