Jukes-Edwards: A Study in Education and HeredityR.L. Myers & Company, 1900 - 82 pages |
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... pauperism , and crime , tends to prevent disease and disgrace , and helps to manliness , success and loyalty . Ignorance leads to all those things that educa- tion tries to do away with , and it tends to do away with all the things that ...
... pauperism , and crime , tends to prevent disease and disgrace , and helps to manliness , success and loyalty . Ignorance leads to all those things that educa- tion tries to do away with , and it tends to do away with all the things that ...
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... paupers , and the more surprised to discover that these six criminals , under four different names , were all descended from the same family . This led Mr. Dugdale to study their relatives , living and dead . He gave himself up to this ...
... paupers , and the more surprised to discover that these six criminals , under four different names , were all descended from the same family . This led Mr. Dugdale to study their relatives , living and dead . He gave himself up to this ...
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... pauperism and crime . They were a disgustingly diseased family as a whole . There were many imbeciles and many insane . Those of " the Jukes " who tended to pau- perism were rarely criminal , and those who were criminal were rarely paupers ...
... pauperism and crime . They were a disgustingly diseased family as a whole . There were many imbeciles and many insane . Those of " the Jukes " who tended to pau- perism were rarely criminal , and those who were criminal were rarely paupers ...
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... pauperism . It is no dis- grace to be poor or to be in a poorhouse if there is a good reason for it . One may be manly in poverty . But the Jukes were never manly or hon- orable paupers , they were weaklings among paupers . They were a ...
... pauperism . It is no dis- grace to be poor or to be in a poorhouse if there is a good reason for it . One may be manly in poverty . But the Jukes were never manly or hon- orable paupers , they were weaklings among paupers . They were a ...
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... of the facts gathered by Mr. Dugdale , 310 of the 1,200 were professional paupers , or more than one in four . These were in poorhouses or its equivalent for 2,300 years . 1 Three hundred of the 1,200 , or one in four THE JUKES 13.
... of the facts gathered by Mr. Dugdale , 310 of the 1,200 were professional paupers , or more than one in four . These were in poorhouses or its equivalent for 2,300 years . 1 Three hundred of the 1,200 , or one in four THE JUKES 13.
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Aaron Burr American Andover Theological Seminary born Boston brilliant Burr's CHAPTER character chil child childhood church clergyman Connecticut crime criminals daughters descendant of Jonathan died Dugdale Edwards family eight eleven children eminent family of Jonathan famous father fessor fifty George George Hoadley gradu graduate of Amherst graduate of Harvard graduate of Yale graduated from Yale Hamilton Hamilton College Haven Hoadley honor husband important Indian inheritance intellectual John Jonathan Edwards Jukes large family law school lawyer leader legislature lived LL.D Major Dwight married Rev merchant missionary moral mother never Northampton oldest pastor pauperism physician Pierrpont preached President Timothy Dwight Princeton professor prominent Richard senate Sereno Edwards Dwight sons Stockbridge Indians Theodore Dwight Theodore Dwight Woolsey Theodore William Dwight thinker thirteen Timothy Dwight Timothy Edwards tion twelve twenty Tyler uncle United vigor wards women Woolsey wrote York City young
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