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PROF. KARL PEARSON does not think that this generation is likely to do justice to the part Sir Francis Galton played in the spread of human knowledge and in its application to the future of the human race. His own appreciation he would have others share, and he whips them with scorpions as an inducement. As he says, “the time is hardly suited to impressing on the majority of men a conviction of the futility of most of their aims, of the depths of their ignorance of what makes for progress, and of the unsatisfying nature of their present pleasures.”
Francis Galton, 1822–1922: A Centenary Appreciation.
By Karl Pearson. (Department of Applied Statistics, University College, London. Questions of the Day and of the Fray, No. 11.) Pp. 23. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1922.) 2s. net.
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Francis Galton, 1822–1922: A Centenary Appreciation . Nature 110, 335–336 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110335a0
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