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stammering, precocity, and, of course, neurosis and psychosis—and he linked them to many creative individuals, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sir Isaac Newton, Arthur Schopenhauer, Jonathan Swift, Charles Darwin, Lord Byron, Charles Baudelaire, and Robert Schumann. Lombroso speculated on various causes of

anization to climate to the phases of the moon. He proposed a close association between genius and degeneracy and argued that both are hereditary. Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, took a much more rigorous approach to the topic. In his 1869 book, Hereditary Genius, Galton used careful documentatio

ening was coterminous and interactive with the eighteenth century development of the modern physical sciences, especially building on the work of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Edwards's assumptions about the harmonious order of creation combined the science of his day with the aristocratic social order of e

ons to that pool will reduce population fitness because they are genetically predisposed to sickness and disability. Concern about the latter led Francis Galton and many of his American and European contemporaries to embrace social Darwinism and to champion efforts to keep the diminished and infirm from r

Awakening was coterminous and interactive with the eighteenth century development of the modern physical sciences, especially building on the work of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Edwards’s assumptions about the harmonious order of creation combined the science of his day with the aristocratic social order of eight

butions to that pool will reduce population fitness because they are genetically predisposed to sickness and disability. Concern about the latter led Francis Galton and many of his American and European contemporaries to embrace social Darwinism and to champion efforts to keep the diminished and infirm from repro