Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology
Frederick Adams Woods
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Length 7 h 5 min
Chapters 16
First published 1906
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral standards and intellectual aptitude to their reputation as rulers. The summarised family histories are produced after a painstaking search including portrait galleries, family lineage, comparisons of reputation, and the origin of allegations of madness and moral bankruptcy, all collated within a single volume. - Summary by Leon Harvey
Chapters
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Preface Read by Leon Harvey 7:12
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II - England Read by Leon Harvey 20:39
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III — Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The Present Reigning House in England. IV — Mecklenburg. Branches of Schwerin, Giistrow and Strelitz. V — Brunswick. Branch of Wolfenbiittel (Bevern and Blankenburg) Read by Leon Harvey 21:23
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VI — Prussia. The House of Hohenzollern. Read by Leon Harvey 21:25
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VII — Netherlands. The House of Nassau-Orange. The House of Nassau-Dietz. Read by Leon Harvey 20:55
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VIII — Montmorency, Conde, Conty. The House of Montmorency. The House of Conde. The House of Conty. Read by Leon Harvey 15:14
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IX — France. The Bourbons in France. The House of Orleans. Read by Leon Harvey 14:55
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X — Spain. Old Castile, Aragon and Leon. The Hapsburgs in Spain. The Bourbons in Spain. The Bourbons in Italy. The Carlist Pretenders in Spain. Read by Leon Harvey 1:13:58
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XI — Austria. The House ofHapsburg. The House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The Hapsburg “Lip". Read by Leon Harvey 31:40
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XII — Portugal. Conditions of the Country Compared with the Various Characteristics of the Rulers. Pedigrees of the Portuguese Rulers. Read by Leon Harvey 31:08
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XIII — Russia. The Romanoffs. Read by Leon Harvey 8:43
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XIV — Denmark. The House of Oldenburg. Read by Leon Harvey 11:50
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XV — Sweden. The House of Vasa. Read by Leon Harvey 26:00
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XVI — Evidence from Lehr’s “Genealogy". Read by Leon Harvey 13:14
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XVII — Correlation Between Mental and Moral Qualities. Is the Mean Standard of FacultyRising. Average Number of Adult Children Born to Each Grade for Virtues. Hereditary Wealth not an Evil. How Mental Faculties may be Rising. Read by Leon Harvey 13:55
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XVIII — General Statistics and Conclusions. Intellectual Achievements and Blood Relationship. Correlation Coefficients for Successive Ascending Generations. Succession Inheritors Show no Influence from Environment. Virtues and BloodRelationship. No Influence on Moral Character from Different Epochs. Concise Statement of the Probabilities in Psychic Heredity. Intermarriage not a Cause of Degeneracy. Royalty Compared with Commoners — No Degeneracy in Many Royal Families — Superiority of Royalty. Philosophical Significance of the Doctrine of Heredity. Read by Leon Harvey 57:29
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