 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
326
Hereditary Genius
gence than she possesses. But these are exceptional instances; the
great fact remains that able men take pleasure in the society of
intelligent women, and, if they can find such as would in other
respects be suitable, they will marry them in preference to
mediocrities.
I think, therefore, that the results given in my tables, under the head
of “Sons,” should be ascribed to the marriages of men of class F and
above, with women whose natural gifts are, on the average, not
inferior to those of class B, and possibly between B and C.
I will now contrast the power of the male and female lines of
kinship in the transmission of ability, and for that purpose will reduce
the actual figures into percentages. As an example of the process,
we may take the cases of the Judges. Here—as will be observed in
the foot-note¹— the actual figures corresponding to the specified
varieties of kinship are 41, l6, 19, 1, making a total of 77; now I raise
these to what they would be if this total were raised to 100; in short, I
multiply them by 100 and divide by 77, which converts them into 53,
21, 25, 1; and these are the figures inserted in the table.
1 The actual figures are—
Judges
States-
men
Comm-
anders
Literary
Scien-
tific
Poets
Artists
Divines
Totals
G.+ U.+ &c.
41
19
12
18
20
12
13
4
139
GF.+ GB.+ &c.
16
4
5
7
12
3
4
2
53
g.+ u.+ &c.
19
10
6
9
9
1
3
16
73
gF.+ gB.+ &c.
1
3
2
0
4
0
0
0
10
Total
77
36
25
34
45
l6
20
22
275
 |
|
 |
|