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Show Large Families and Genius. Havelock Kill., the Knglfsh sociologist, sociolo-gist, took from dictionaries of biography biog-raphy l.(X:0 British geniuses from the Fourth century to the present time, rejecting any nbntit whose parentage r.otiiing was known. He found the vast majority came from very large families, famil-ies, "much larger than the average fMiilly at the time they lived." The pentoses tended to be the oldest sons of large families or the youngest sons of large families. Only children made rp u very sinnll percentage of 'the thousand and thirty McClure's Magn-tciue. |