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

Frederick Adams Woods (1873 - 1939)

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

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Leon Harvey
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Play 01 I - Introductory Leon Harvey
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Play 02 II - England Leon Harvey
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Play 03 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) Leon Harvey
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Play 04 VI — Prussia. The House of Hohenzollern. Leon Harvey
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Play 05 VII — Netherlands. The House of Nassau-Orange. The House of Nassau-Dietz. Leon Harvey
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Play 06 VIII — Montmorency, Conde, Conty. The House of Montmorency. The House of Conde. The House of Conty. Leon Harvey
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Play 07 IX — France. The Bourbons in France. The House of Orleans. Leon Harvey
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Play 08 X — Spain. Old Castile, Aragon and Leon. The Hapsburgs in Spain. The Bourbons in Spain. The Bourbons in Italy. The Carlist Pretenders in Spain. Leon Harvey
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Play 09 XI — Austria. The House ofHapsburg. The House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The Hapsburg “Lip". Leon Harvey
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Play 10 XII — Portugal. Conditions of the Country Compared with the Various Characteristics of the Rulers. Pedigrees of the Portuguese Rulers. Leon Harvey
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Play 11 XIII — Russia. The Romanoffs. Leon Harvey
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Play 12 XIV — Denmark. The House of Oldenburg. Leon Harvey
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Play 13 XV — Sweden. The House of Vasa. Leon Harvey
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Play 14 XVI — Evidence from Lehr’s “Genealogy". Leon Harvey
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Play 15 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. Leon Harvey
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Play 16 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. Leon Harvey
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