Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology), Political Science

Authors: Frederick Adams Woods In Year : 1906

Book Language: English

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Preface
I - Introductory
II - England
III — Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The Present Reigning House in England. IV — Mecklenburg. Branches of Schwerin, Giistrow and Strelitz. V — Brunswick. Branch of Wolfenbiittel (Bevern and Blankenburg)
VI — Prussia. The House of Hohenzollern.
VII — Netherlands. The House of Nassau-Orange. The House of Nassau-Dietz.
VIII — Montmorency, Conde, Conty. The House of Montmorency. The House of Conde. The House of Conty.
IX — France. The Bourbons in France. The House of Orleans.
X — Spain. Old Castile, Aragon and Leon. The Hapsburgs in Spain. The Bourbons in Spain. The Bourbons in Italy. The Carlist Pretenders in Spain.
XI — Austria. The House ofHapsburg. The House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The Hapsburg “Lip".
XII — Portugal. Conditions of the Country Compared with the Various Characteristics of the Rulers. Pedigrees of the Portuguese Rulers.
XIII — Russia. The Romanoffs.
XIV — Denmark. The House of Oldenburg.
XV — Sweden. The House of Vasa.
XVI — Evidence from Lehr’s “Genealogy".
XVII — Correlation Between Mental and Moral Qualities. Is the Mean Standard of FacultyRising. Average Number of Adult Children Born to Each Grade for Virtues. Hereditary Wealth not an Evil. How Mental Faculties may be Rising.
XVIII — General Statistics and Conclusions. Intellectual Achievements and Blood Relationship. Correlation Coefficients for Successive Ascending Generations. Succession Inheritors Show no Influence from Environment. Virtues and BloodRelationship. No Influence on Moral Character from Different Epochs. Concise Statement of the Probabilities in Psychic Heredity. Intermarriage not a Cause of Degeneracy. Royalty Compared with Commoners — No Degeneracy in Many Royal Families — Superiority of Royalty. Philosophical Significance of the Doctrine of Heredity.

Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral standards and intellectual aptitude to their reputation as rulers. The summarised family histories are produced after a painstaking search including portrait galleries, family lineage, comparisons of reputation, and the origin of allegations of madness and moral bankruptcy, all collated within a single volume. - Summary by Leon Harvey