Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- MEMOIR
- Hybridisation and Cross-breeding as a Method of Scientific Investigation
- Problems of Heredity as a subject for Horticultural Investigation
- An Address on Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man. Delivered before the Neurological Society, London, I. ii. 1906
- Gamete and Zygote. A Lay Discourse. The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, 1917
- Heredity and Variation in Modern Lights
- Presidential Address to the Zoological Section, British Association: Cambridge Meeting, 1904
- Presidential Address to the Agricultural Subsection, British Association: Portsmouth Meeting, 1911
- Presidential Address to the British Association, Australia: (a) Melbourne Meeting, 1914. (b) Sydney Meeting, 1914
- The Methods and Scope of Genetics. Inaugural Lecture delivered 23 October 1908. Cambridge
- Biological Fact and the Structure of Society. The Herbert Spencer Lecture, 28 February 1912. Oxford
- Science and Nationality. Presidential Address delivered at the Inaugural Meeting of the Yorkshire Science Association
- Common-sense in Racial Problems. The Galton Lecture
- Evolutionary Faith and Modern Doubts. Address to American Association for the Advancement of Science. Toronto, 1922
- Progress in Biology. An Address delivered March 12, 1924, on the occasion of the Centenary of Birkbeck College, London
- EDUCATIONAL ESSAYS
- REVIEWS
- Evolution for Amateurs. A review of The Evolution Theory
- Heredity in the Physiology of Nations. A review of The Principles of Heredity
- Huxley and Evolution
- APPENDIX
- INDEX OF PERSONS
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- PLATES I-III (Figs. 1-6) to Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man
Heredity in the Physiology of Nations. A review of The Principles of Heredity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- MEMOIR
- Hybridisation and Cross-breeding as a Method of Scientific Investigation
- Problems of Heredity as a subject for Horticultural Investigation
- An Address on Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man. Delivered before the Neurological Society, London, I. ii. 1906
- Gamete and Zygote. A Lay Discourse. The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, 1917
- Heredity and Variation in Modern Lights
- Presidential Address to the Zoological Section, British Association: Cambridge Meeting, 1904
- Presidential Address to the Agricultural Subsection, British Association: Portsmouth Meeting, 1911
- Presidential Address to the British Association, Australia: (a) Melbourne Meeting, 1914. (b) Sydney Meeting, 1914
- The Methods and Scope of Genetics. Inaugural Lecture delivered 23 October 1908. Cambridge
- Biological Fact and the Structure of Society. The Herbert Spencer Lecture, 28 February 1912. Oxford
- Science and Nationality. Presidential Address delivered at the Inaugural Meeting of the Yorkshire Science Association
- Common-sense in Racial Problems. The Galton Lecture
- Evolutionary Faith and Modern Doubts. Address to American Association for the Advancement of Science. Toronto, 1922
- Progress in Biology. An Address delivered March 12, 1924, on the occasion of the Centenary of Birkbeck College, London
- EDUCATIONAL ESSAYS
- REVIEWS
- Evolution for Amateurs. A review of The Evolution Theory
- Heredity in the Physiology of Nations. A review of The Principles of Heredity
- Huxley and Evolution
- APPENDIX
- INDEX OF PERSONS
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- PLATES I-III (Figs. 1-6) to Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man
Summary
What will happen when civilised society thoroughly grasps what heredity means? There are signs, of which Mr Archdall Reid's book is only one, that that time may not be very far off. It is a mere accident that recognition of the plain facts has been delayed so long. Were the physiology of inheritance slightly less complex, its paramount importance would long ago have been evident to all, and man would have perceived that this is the point at which he can really shape his own destiny. The steady application of a breeding law would accomplish more in three generations than all the criminal and sanitary enactments that the centuries have devised. Mr Galton has been proclaiming this truth to a sceptical world for forty years. Nature, to use his antithesis, is much; nurture incomparably little. Circumstances have lately combined to bring these matters into prominence. Physical deterioration, the alarming increase in the relative numbers of the insane, the utility of teaching the minds of starving children, the relation of the State to the unemployed, and all questions of grave national anxiety—they are problems of national physiology, and as physiological problems they are at last beginning to be studied.
Political economists have hitherto incurred no reproach if their doctrine were not based on physiological evidence. That is not their department; and though illustrative references to such topics are considered becoming in their writings, neither economist nor politician has been expected to go to physiology for his fundamental facts.
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- William Bateson, NaturalistHis Essays and Addresses Together with a Short Account of His Life, pp. 456 - 459Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009