Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology


Read by Leon Harvey

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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 (7 hr 4 min)

Chapters

Preface 7:12 Read by Leon Harvey
I - Introductory 35:05 Read by Leon Harvey
II - England 20:39 Read by Leon Harvey
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) 21:23 Read by Leon Harvey
VI — Prussia. The House of Hohenzollern. 21:25 Read by Leon Harvey
VII — Netherlands. The House of Nassau-Orange. The House of Nassau-Dietz. 20:55 Read by Leon Harvey
VIII — Montmorency, Conde, Conty. The House of Montmorency. The House of Conde. The House of Conty. 15:14 Read by Leon Harvey
IX — France. The Bourbons in France. The House of Orleans. 14:55 Read by Leon Harvey
X — Spain. Old Castile, Aragon and Leon. The Hapsburgs in Spain. The Bourbons in Spain. The Bourbons in Italy. The Carlist Pretenders in Spain. 1:13:58 Read by Leon Harvey
XI — Austria. The House ofHapsburg. The House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The Hapsburg “Lip". 31:40 Read by Leon Harvey
XII — Portugal. Conditions of the Country Compared with the Various Characteristics of the Rulers. Pedigrees of the Portuguese Rulers. 31:08 Read by Leon Harvey
XIII — Russia. The Romanoffs. 8:43 Read by Leon Harvey
XIV — Denmark. The House of Oldenburg. 11:50 Read by Leon Harvey
XV — Sweden. The House of Vasa. 26:00 Read by Leon Harvey
XVI — Evidence from Lehr’s “Genealogy". 13:14 Read by Leon Harvey
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. 13:55 Read by Leon Harvey
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. Philosophica… 57:29 Read by Leon Harvey

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