Heredity and Human ProgressG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 - 283 pages |
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¹ Dr ¹ Prof abnormal ancestry animals appears Appendix Artena asylum August Weismann become brain capital punishment cause cent character child civilized committed common condition congenital constitute conviction crime criminal D. S. Jordan dangerous deaf-mutes death defective degeneracy degenerate degree disease environment epilepsy epileptic evil existence father fear feeble feeble-minded feel goitre habitual drunkard Havelock Ellis Henry Maudsley Herbert Spencer hereditary heredity Hindu human Ibid idea idiocy idiots illegitimacy incorrigible individuals induce influence inheritance inmates insane institutions intelligence killed kind Kurella large number latter less lives Lombroso London manifestation married ment merely mind moral imbecility moral sense morbid murder nature normal offences offspring Otto Ammon Otto Binswanger parents Paris penalties persons prison punishment race reason recent reform reformatory regard reverence says sentiment society suffer suicide taint tendency tion true usually vicious victim weak woman York York Evening Post
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Page 202 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it...
Page 223 - And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Page 274 - The opinion of the earth's motion is of all heresies the most abominable, the most pernicious, the most scandalous ; the immovability of the earth is thrice sacred ; argument against the immortality of the soul, the existence of God, and the incarnation, should be tolerated sooner than an argument to prove that the earth moves.
Page 217 - Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. The case requires, and the law and the Constitution sanction, this punishment. Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend into a public meeting, and there working upon his...
Page 39 - They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
Page 4 - Fostering the good-for-nothing at the expense of the good, is an extreme cruelty. It is a deliberate storing-up of miseries for future generations. There is no greater curse to posterity than that of bequeathing them an increasing population of imbeciles and idlers and criminals.
Page 224 - THE king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong ; he can never mean to do an improper thing : in him is no folly or weakness.
Page 69 - ... to be propagated from the father to the son, he was instantly gelded: a woman kept from all company of men; and if by chance, having some such disease, she were found to be with child, she with her brood were buried alive": and this was done for the common good, lest the whole nation should be injured or corrupted.
Page 255 - I conclude that each generation has enormous power over the natural gifts of those that follow, and maintain that it is a duty we owe to humanity to investigate the range of that power, and to exercise it in a way that, without being unwise towards ourselves, shall be most advantageous to future inhabitants of the earth.
Page 225 - But nevertheless, in that case we may not in any wise withstand violently, or rebel against rulers, or make any insurrection, sedition, or tumults, either by force of arms, or otherwise, against the anointed of the Lord, or any of his appointed officers : but we must in such case patiently suffer all wrongs and injuries, referring the judgment of our cause only to God.