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Quotes from Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development — Francis Galton

1822–1911 England

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A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.

Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883)

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