Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Henry H Ellis Atlantic Monthly Magazine

Subjects:

Breeding, Heredity, Genius, Eugenics

    Contends that 'Cross-breeding, although not the only factor in the causation of genius, is one of the factors in the determination of imaginative genius'. The aesthetic writer Walter H Pater, for instance, 'was originally of French descent, but his great grand-father settled in the Anglo-Saxon neighbourhood of Norwich'.