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Methods of Measuring the Concentration of Wealth

Abstract: (1905) Methods of Measuring the Concentration of Wealth Publications of the American Statistical Association: Vol 9, No 70, pp 209-219

Homicide in New Hampshire

Abstract: (1905). Homicide in New Hampshire. Publications of the American Statistical Association: Vol. 9, No. 70, pp. 220-230.

On the Inheritance of the Mental and Moral Characters in Man, and its Comparison with the Inheritance of the Physical Characters

Abstract: (1) THERE are probably few persons who would lnow deny the immense importance of ancestry in the case of any domestic animal. The stud-books, which exist for horses, cattle, dogs, ca-tsand even canaries, demonstrate the weight practically given to ancestry when the -breeding of animals has developed so far that certain physical characters possess commercial value. A majority of the communlity would probably also admit to-day that the physical characters of man are inherited with practically the same intensity as the like characters in cattle and horses. But few, however, of the majority who accept this inheritance of physique in mail, apply the results which flow from such acceptance to their own conduct in lifestill less do they appreciate the all important bearing of these results upon national life and social habits. Nor is the reason for this-or better, one out of several reasons for this-hard to find. The majority of mankind are more or less conscious that man has not gained his pre-eminence by physique alone. They justly attribute much of his dominance in the animal kingdom to those mnental and moral characters, which have rendered him capable of combining with, his neighbours to form stable societies with highly differentiated tasks and circumscribed uties for their individual members. Within such comnmunities we see the moral characters developing apparently under family influences; the mental characters developing not only under home training, but under the guidance of private and public teachers, the whole contributing to form a complex system of national education. To use technical terms, we expect correlation between home influence and moral qualities, and between education and mental power, and the bulk of men too rashly, perhaps, conclude that the home and the school are the chief sources of those qualities on which social stability so largely depends. We are too apt to overlook the possibility that the home standard is itself a product of parental stock, and that the relative gain from education depends to a surprising degree on the raw VOL. XXXIII. )

Methods of Presenting Statistics of Wages

Abstract: (1905). Methods of Presenting Statistics of Wages. Publications of the American Statistical Association: Vol. 9, No. 72, pp. 325-343.