TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davidson,Jenny
TI  - Breeding: a partial history of the eighteenth century 
SN  - 9780231138789
U1  - 809.93353 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - English Literature
KW  - History and Criticism
KW  - Breeding
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Education and Heredity
KW  - Nature and Nurture
KW  - Breeding in Literature
KW  - Heredity in Literature
KW  - Biology in Literature
KW  - Eugenics in Literature
KW  - Eugenics
KW  - Literature and science
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Breeding Before Biology --; Ch. 1; The Rules of Resemblance --; Why Children Look Like Their Fathers --; The Rules of Resemblance --; "Nature's Bastards" --; "Her Royal Image Stampt on Thee" --; Ch. 2; Bent --; The Blank Slate --; Sinners by Descent --; "A Meer Errant Cat" --; Ch. 3; Cultures of Improvement --; Deucalion's Kin --; "A Living Magazine" --; "A Perfect Yahoo" --; The Perfectibility Problem --; "Properties Descend!" --; "Ascertaining What Species Can Procreate Together" --; Differences of Climate --; "The Management of Human Creatures" --; Crabs and Brambles --; Ch. 4; A Natural History of Inequality --; The Difference Between One Man and Another --; "We Are Born Twice Over" --; "Nature's Own Pencil" --; The Natural Inequality of Man --; "A Purity, Which Coarts Doo Not Always Bestow" --; Ch. 5; Blots on the Landscape --; "This Blot in Our Country Increases" --; "The Incessant Improveableness of the Human Species" --; "Encumbering the World With Useless and Wretched Beings" --; Ch. 6; Shibboleths --; Shibboleths --; The Blackmail of Enlightenment --; Conclusion: The Promise of Perfection
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