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" ... several professions. An extended civilization like ours comprises more interests than the ordinary statesmen or philosophers of our present race are capable of dealing with, and it exacts more intelligent work than our ordinary artisans and labourers... "
Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy, Engineering ... - Page 487
edited by - 1883
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Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and ..., Volume 27; Volume 100

Francis Galton - 1869 - 474 pages
...work than our ordinary artisans and labourers are capable of performing. Our race is overweighted, and appears likely to be drudged into degeneracy by demands that exceed its powers. If its average ability were raised a grade or two, our new classes F and G would conduct the complex...
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Hereditary genius

Sir Francis Galton - 1869 - 490 pages
...work than our ordinary artisans and labourers are capable of performing. Our race is overweighted, and appears likely to be drudged into degeneracy by demands that exceed its powers. If its average ability were raised a grade or two, our new classes F and G would conduct the complex...
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A Manual of Anthropology: Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern Research

Charles Bray - 1871 - 390 pages
...work than our ordinary artisans and labourers are capable of performing. Our race is overweighted, and appears likely to be drudged into degeneracy by...before the jaded nervous system is capable of enjoyment : men are overexcited, and require a sedative to quiet their too active brain, and both the disease...
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A Manual of Anthropology: Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern Research

Charles Bray - 1871 - 398 pages
...work than our ordinary artisans and labourers are capable of performing. Our race is overweighted, and appears likely to be drudged into degeneracy by...the jaded nervous system is capable of enjoyment: men are overexcited, and require a sedative to quiet their too active brain, and both the disease and...
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Saint Pauls, Volume 11

1872 - 760 pages
...the fastest." And I also agree with Mr. Francis Galton, that "our race is" (in modern civilisation) " over- weighted, and appears likely to be drudged into degeneracy by demands that exceed its powers." The claims made in behalf of "Science," in respect to human progress, by men like Sir John Lubbock...
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Saint Pauls [afterw.] The Saint Pauls magazine, ed. by A. Trollope, Volume 11

Anthony Trollope - 1872 - 758 pages
...I also agree with Mr. Francis Galton, that " our race is" (in modern civilisation) " over-weighted, and appears likely to be drudged into degeneracy by demands that exceed its powers." The claims made in behalf of " Science," in respect to human progress, by men like Sir John Lubbock...
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Deterioration and the Elevation of Man Through Race Education, Volume 1

Samuel Royce - 1877 - 506 pages
...commentary these increasing ratios of insanity form to Galton, when he says : " Our race is overweighed and likely to be drudged into degeneracy by demands that exceed its powers. With the deterioration of the condition of the masses, their organizations and functions, there will...
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Deterioration and Race Education: With Practical Application to the ...

Samuel Royce - 1877 - 610 pages
...commentary these increasing ratios of insanity form to Galton, when he says: " Our race is overweighed and likely to be drudged into degeneracy by demands that exceed its powers. With the deterioration of the condition of the masses, their, organizations and functions, there will...
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The Future of the Republic, Its Dangers and Its Hopes: An Address, Delivered ...

James Abram Garfield - 1880 - 24 pages
..." the demands of our civilization are too great for the stamina and endurance of our people : that our race is over[ weighted, and appears likely to...degeneracy by demands that exceed its powers.":): But interesting and important as that reflection is, in relation to individual life, the rapid development...
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The Works of James Abram Garfield, Volume 2

James Abram Garfield - 1882 - 842 pages
...civilization are too great for the stamina and endurance of our people ; that " our race is overweighted, and appears likely to be drudged into degeneracy by demands that exceed its powers."2 But interesting and important as that reflection is, in relation to individual life, the...
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