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of 30i| to 69J. The data used in Table 22 refer to a 

 considerably larger number of persons, and do not 

 include more than two-thirds of those employed in 

 Table 9b, and they make the proportion to be 31 to 

 69. So we shall be quite correct enough if we reckon 

 that out of ten persons in the families of my R.F.F. 

 correspondents, three on the average are artistic and 

 seven are not. 



Marriage Selection. — Table 9b enables us to ascer- 

 tain whether there is any tendency, or any disinclination 

 among the Artistic and the Non- Artistic, to marry within 

 their respective castes. It shows the observed fre- 

 quency of their marriages in each of the three possible 

 combinations ; namely, both husband and wife artistic ; 

 one artistic and one not ; and both not artistic. The 

 Table also gives the calculated frequency of the three 

 classes, supposing the pairings to be regulated by the 

 laws of chance. There is I think trustworthy evidence 

 of the existence of some slight disinclination to marry 

 within the same caste, for signs of it appear in each 

 of the three sets of families with which the Table 

 deals. The total result is that there are only 36 per 

 cent, of such marriages observed, whereas if there had 

 been no disinclination but perfect indifference, the 

 number would have been raised to 42. The difference 

 is small and the figures are few, but for the above 

 reasons it is not likely to be fallacious. I believe the 

 facts to be, that highly artistic people keep pretty much 

 to themselves, but that the very much larger body of 



