Education and the Heredity Spectre (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Education and the Heredity Spectre <p/>The argument of the following essay is identical with that of a series of lectures delivered at Scarborough during the summer of 1907. In the course of the following autumn and winter an outline of the same was given before several London audiences and on one occasion the Chairman, a well-known educationist and county councillor, expressed the wish that it should be published. This, accordingly, has been done. <p/>About the Publisher <p/>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p/>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.