Alcoholism: A Study in HeredityBailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1902 - 293 páginas |
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Alcoholism: A Study in Heredity George Archdall O'Brien Reid,Sir George Archdall O'Brien Reid Visualização completa - 1901 |
Alcoholism: A Study in Heredity George Archdall O'Brien Reid,Sir George Archdall O'Brien Reid Visualização completa - 1901 |
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abstainers acquired characters Acts Africa alcohol ancestor ancient atavism beer Burmah Burmese capacity for enjoying cause cells child civilised classes Commission on Opium consumption Contagious Diseases Acts craving death-rate develop doctrine drink drinkers drunk drunkards drunkenness effects elimination environment evidence evolved example exercise experience fact favourable germ germ-cells Gothenburg greater heredity human immoral immunity inborn characters increase India individual inebriates inebriety inhabitants instance instinct intemperance intoxication Jews Lamarck Lamarckian less malaria maternal impressions measles microbes modifications moral Natural Selection Neo-Darwinians offspring ontogeny opium parent perish phylogeny physical plants and animals poison population power of acquiring present Prohibition race rendered resistant result retrogression Reversed Selection saprophytic savages self-control sober South Europeans species stringent suppose survival tapu Temperance Reform tend tendency theory Thomas Morton tion transmission of acquirements transmitted true unicellular organism useless variations venereal venereal disease Vide Appendix wine zymotic diseases
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Página 223 - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. "An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. "He dried his wings: like gauze they grew: Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
Página 175 - The germs of existence contained in this earth, if they could freely develop themselves, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. Necessity, that imperious, all-pervading law of nature, restrains them within the prescribed bounds. The race of plants and the race of animals shrink under this great restrictive law; and man cannot by any efforts of reason escape from it.
Página 175 - Through the animal and vegetable kingdoms Nature has scattered the seeds of life abroad with the most profuse and liberal hand; but has been comparatively sparing in the room and the nourishment necessary to rear them.
Página 162 - ... expedients to procure rum, but failed. At length, however, he hit upon one which was successful. He went into the wood-yard of the establishment, placed one hand upon the block, and with an axe in the other, struck it off at a single blow. With the stump raised and streaming, he ran into the house and cried, ' Get some rum ! get some rum ! my hand is off...
Página 238 - Here, then, lies the gist of the whole matter. The progress is one, not of internal power, but of external advantage. The child born in a civilized land, is not likely, as such, to be superior to one born among barbarians; and the difference which ensues between the acts of the two children will be caused, so far as we know, solely by the pressure of external circumstances; by which I mean the surrounding opinions, knowledge, associations, in a word, the entire mental atmosphere in which the two...
Página 235 - The consequence was that these gentle natures had no continuance, and thus by a policy so singularly unwise and suicidal that I am hardly able to speak of it without impatience, the Church brutalised the breed of our forefathers. She acted precisely as if she aimed at selecting the rudest portion of the community to be, alone, the parents of future generations. She practised the arts which breeders would use, who aimed at creating ferocious, currish and stupid natures.
Página 237 - Of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Página 237 - The average ability of the Athenian race is, on the lowest possible estimate, very nearly two grades higher than our own, that is, about as much as our race is above that of the African Negro.
Página 235 - The long period of the Dark Ages, under which Europe has lain, is due, I believe, in a very considerable degree, to the celibacy enjoined by religious orders on their votaries. Whenever a man or woman was possessed of a gentle nature that fitted him or her to deeds of charity, to meditation, to literature, or to art, the social condition of the time was such that they had no refuge elsewhere than in the bosom of the Church.
Página 238 - Whatever, therefore, the moral and intellectual progress of men may be, it resolves itself not into a progress of natural capacity," but into a progress, if I may so say, of opportunity ; that is, an improvement in the circumstances under which that capacity after birth comes into play. Here, then, lies the gist of the whole matter. The progress is one, not of internal power, but of external advantage.