Note 246 — Chapter V
Reading edition
‘Hereditary Genius,’ 1870, p. 357-359. The Rev. F. H. Farrar (‘Fraser’s Mag.’, Aug. 1870, p. 257) advances arguments on the other side. Sir C. Lyell had already (‘Principles of Geology,’ vol. ii. 1868, p. 489) called attention, in a striking passage, to the evil influence of the Holy Inquisition in having lowered, through selection, the general standard of intelligence in Europe.