“…..our personalities are not so independent as our self-consciousness leads us to believe. We may look upon each individual as something not wholly detached from its parent source, – as a wave that has been lifted and shaped by normal conditions in an unknown, illimitable ocean.”

(Sir Francis Galton, 1822 – 1911)

John Lentell

2nd March, 1970

“The sense of original sin would show….not that man was fallen from a high estate, but that he was rising in moral culture with more rapidity than the nature of his race could follow.”

(Sir Francis Galton, 1822 – 1911)

John Lentell

7th February, 1970

“We know how careless nature is of the lives of individuals; we have seen how careless she is of eminent families – how they are built up, flourish, and decay.: just the same may be said of races……”.

(From Hereditary Genius, published in 1869 by Francis Galton, 1822 – 1911)

John Lentell

3rd July, 1969