"There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation."

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Source : "Hereditary Genius". Book by Francis Galton, p. 414, 1869.

Francis Galton

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