The Marriage of Near Kin: Considered With Respect to the Laws of Nations, the Results of Biology (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Marriage of Near Kin: Considered With Respect to the Laws of Nations, the Results of Biology

I. Whether consanguineous marriages are themselves, by the mere fact Of consanguinity, and irrespective Of any in heritance, injurious to the Offspring. Whether, in a marriage between two relatives who are both perfectly healthy, live under healthy conditions, and whose families are perfectly healthy, the children born will probably be unhealthy?

II. Whether consanguineous marriages give a greater proportion Of unhealthy children than non-consanguineous marriages; or, in other words, whether it is a fact that con sanguineous marriages, through intensification of a previously dormant hereditary family taint, give a greater proportion of unhealthy children?

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Excerpt from The Marriage of Near Kin: Considered With Respect to the Laws of Nations, the Results of Biology

Though many writers have treated on the subject of consanguineous marriage, from many points of view, no one has hitherto come forward with a generalization of their work, which lies scattered and buried in a mass of pamphlets and periodical literature, difficult to hear of, difficult to find, and requiring considerable time and thought to digest. The consequence has been that people have been unable to judge of the relative value of the various observations they may read or make, and from a want of the necessary perspective are liable to draw wholly wrong and sometimes ridiculous conclusions.

In this work the author has endeavoured to gather together everything of importance that has been written upon the subject; to arrange and classify it, to weigh the evidence on either side, to reject what is worthless, and point out the value of what remains. In this investigation he has attempted to divest himself of all prejudice, whether of tradition or custom, which might tend to warp his judgment, and has, therefore, often found himself obliged to treat as debatable, assumptions which inveterate association has rightly made shameful to doubt, but which, undisturbed, would make the discovery of truth impossible.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

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.