When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining by an easy method whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man.


volume II, chapter XXI: "General Summary and Conclusion", page 403 - The Descent of Man (1871)

Charles Darwin Quotes

When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn...

When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn...

When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn...

When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn...