There is commonly a strong resemblance, owing to inheritance, between the dispositions of the child and its parents. They are able to understand the ways of one another more intimately than is possible to persons not of the same blood, and the child instinctively... Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development - Sida 173efter Francis Galton - 1911 - 261 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1876 - 606 sidor
...There is commonly a strong resemblance, owing to inheritance, between the dispositions of the child and its parents. They are able to understand the ways...sense of the word ', that is to say, it is evoked earlier than it would otherwise have been. On these grounds, I ascribe the persistence of habits that... | |
| Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1876 - 614 sidor
...There is commonly a strong resemblance, owing to inheritance, between the dispositions of the child and its parents. They are able to understand the ways...true sense of the word ; that is to say, it is evoked earlier than it would otherwise have been. On these grounds, I ascribe the persistence of habits that... | |
| Fernand Lagrange - 1889 - 476 sidor
...causes increased action of the heart-muscle. Usually, in fact, this organ does become hypertrophicd in the true sense of the word, that is to say it becomes thicker, heavier, with stronger walls and able to propel the blood more vigorously. True or... | |
| Paul Carus - 1894 - 698 sidor
...only is geometrical space isogenous, as we first believed real space was, but it is also homogeneous in the true sense of the word : that is to say, it has the capacity of receiving similar bodies, or bodies of the same form but different dimensions.... | |
| Addison McLeod - 1912 - 406 sidor
...not so long but that criticism may be of interest, and, perhaps, even of value. The time is critical, in the true sense of the word — that is to say, it is a moment at which, in more than one question of moment, a decision must be taken. It is therefore interesting... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1912 - 1068 sidor
...rails; (4) moderate speeds. 2. Anschutz Gyro-Compass. By GKB ELPHINSTONE. This apparatus is a compass in the true sense of the word ; that is to say, it takes up a definite direction on any part of the earth's surface, so that its axle points to the true... | |
| Daniel Wolford La Rue - 1916 - 158 sidor
...At home, heredity and environment reenforce each other as nowhere else. As Francis Galton puts it: " Those teachings that conform to the natural aptitudes...that is to say, it is evoked, not formed by them."* " My son, you eat like a pig," said a father, in reproof. Then, to drive the lesson, home, he asked,... | |
| Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - 1927 - 1094 sidor
...trifling accidents. Nevertheless, all the sticks succeed in passing down the current; and in the long run, they travel at nearly the same rate. So it is with...marks left on the memory by the instructions of a foster mother are soon sponged clean away. Consider the history of the cuckoo, which is reared exclusively... | |
| David Bellos - 1987 - 126 sidor
...imaginary world is not the reader Balzac wanted for Old Goriot. He admits that his text is not dramatic 'in the true sense of the word', that is to say it is not actually a play; but he insists that it is not novelistic in the conventional sense either. Balzac... | |
| Karl Pearson - 1924 - 570 sidor
...child and its parents. They are able to understand the ways of one another more intimately than ¡s possible to persons not of the same blood, and the...true sense of the word ; that is to say, it is evoked earlier than it would otherwise have been. On these grounds I ascribe the persistence of habits that... | |
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