 That both on the grounds of fact and of theory there is the highest degree of probability that feeble-mindedness is usually spontaneous in origin— that is, not due to influences acting on the parents — and tends strongly to be inherited.  The Quarterly Review - Page 36edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1910 - 754 pages
...imbecility and criminality. The report of the Royal Commission on the feeble-minded in 1907 states: "First: There is the highest degree of probability that feeble-mindedness...origin, that is, not due to influences acting on the parents. Second : That it tends strongly to be inherited." One of the commissioners in the London Times... | |
 | Medicine - 1913 - 748 pages
...danger to the national mental stability. The Commissioii found that both on the ground of fact and theory there is the highest degree of probability...feeble-mindedness is usually spontaneous in origin and tends strongly to be inherited, and that, especially in view of the evidence concerning fertility,... | |
 | Alfred Frank Tredgold - Intellectual disability - 1914 - 596 pages
...is that they are spontaneous. This was the view advanced by the Royal Commission, which declared: " Both on the ground of fact and of theory there is the highest degree of probability that^feeble-mindedness is usually spontaneous in origin^-that is, not due to influences acting : on... | |
 | Child development - 1918 - 466 pages
...investigation of the mental defectives in England, the Commission declared : " Both on the ground of fact and theory there is the highest degree of probability...origin — that is, not due to influences acting on the parents — and tends strongly to be inherited." I must confess that I fail to see any scientific value... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1920 - 720 pages
...the sociologist usually attributes to economic causes, are claimed by the author as being due to the swing of the pendulum bringing into play a preponderating...theory there is the highest degree of probability that feeble-mindetlness is usually spontaneous in origin; that is, not due to influences acting on the parent.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1920 - 740 pages
...science than this? The second _theory of causation is that these retrogressive variations are~"not caused, but arise of themselves; in other words, that...fact and of theory there is the highest degree of prob/ ability that feeble-mindedness is usually spontaneous in origin; that is, not due I to influences... | |
 | Andy Alaszewski - Intellectual disability - 1986 - 296 pages
...conclusion, we may fairly sum up the general effect of the evidence as follows: (1) That both on the grounds of fact and of theory there is the highest degree...usually spontaneous in origin - that is not due to influence acting on the parent - and tends strongly to be inherited. (2) That, especially in view of... | |
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