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Hereditary Genius
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It is, however, quite another matter with respect to brain power, for, as I
shall have occasion to show, the Universities attract to themselves a large
proportion of the eminent scholastic talent of all England. There are nearly
a quarter of million males in Great Britain who arrive each year at the
proper age for going to the University: therefore, if Cambridge, for example,
received only one in every five of the ablest scholastic intellects, she would
be able, in every period of ten years, to boast of the fresh arrival of an
undergraduate, the rank of whose scholastic eminence was that of one in a
million.
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