The Descent of Man

i. ss. 58, 87. Rengger, 'Saugethiere von Paraguay,'
s. 57.)
I have elsewhere (9. 'Variation of Animals and
Plants under Domestication,' vol. ii. chap. xii.)
so fully discussed the subject of Inheritance,
that I need here add hardly anything. A greater
number of facts have been collected with respect
to the transmission of the most trifling, as
well as of the most important characters in
man, than in any of the lower animals; though
the facts are copious enough with respect to the
latter. So in regard to mental qualities, their
transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses,
and other domestic animals. Besides special
tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage,
bad and good temper, etc., are certainly transmitted.
With man we see similar facts in almost
every family; and we now know, through the
admirable labours of Mr. Galton (10. 'Hereditary
Genius: an Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences,'
1869.), that genius which implies a