The feebly inhibited: Nomadisn, or the wandering impulse : with special reference to heredity; Inheritance of temperament

Charles Benedict Davenport

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• Tempérament
• Heredity

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THE FEEBLY INHIBITED
ORTHEWANDERINGNOMADISM, IMPULSE,
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO
HEREDITY
INHERITANCE OF TEMPERAMENT
BY
B.CHARLES DAVENPORT
Director Evolutionof Department of Experimental
at Cold HarborSpring
D. C.WASHINGTON,
PUBLISHED BY THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
1915
iCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
PUBLICATION No. 236.
No. OP STATION FOR ATPAPBR THB EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION24
SPRING NEW YORKCOLD HARBOR,
PRESS OF GIBSON INCBROTHERS.
D. C.WASHINGTON.PREFACE.
The two studies included in the volume are the second andpresent
of a series of studies on the Inhibited. Thethird, respectively, Feebly
first Violent and its was in the(on Inheritance)Temper published
Mental forof Nervous and Diseases TheseJournal September 1915.
of which two are in arestudies the outcomepreparation principally
of the of a amount of data collected trainedanalysis large by "eugenics
"
field-workers in connection with various State andacting institutions,
above all with those for is due towayward girls. Acknowledgment
those and to the field-workers who havesuperintendents co-operated
in the The institutions of the ofstudy. following paid part expense
the data :collecting
1 . State Industrial School for Massachusetts Mrs.Girls, Lancaster,
; Amy
F. Mrs. G. W. and Dr. Wilhel-Everall, Superintendent; Hathaway
mine E. field-workers.Key,
for2. New State Home New Mrs.Girls, Trenton,Jersey Jersey;
MissElizabeth V. H. Z. E. field-Mansell, Superintendent; Udell,
worker.
for Dr. David F.New State3. Village Epileptics; Weeks,Jersey Super-
Mrs. D. F. Woodward and MissIy. Sadie C.intendent; Devitt,
field-workers.
New Home for Feeble-minded Dr. Madeline4. Women; Hallowell,Jersey
Miss Helen T. field-worker.Reeves,Superintendent;
The Glen Mills Girls' MissSchools,5. (Pennsylvania) Department;
Martha P. Miss Ruth field-Falconer, Superintendent; Wanger,
worker.
The cost of the field-workers was met Mrs. H. Hani-E.training by
founder and of the Record andman, Office,principal patron Eugenics
Mr. D. who also the salaries of of theRockefeller,John paid many
field-workers. This assistance isgenerous gratefully acknowledged.
to the term inhibited" used inA word be said as thesemay "feebly
It as a fit term to stand as co-ordinate withstudies. was selected
and as the result of a conviction that the"feeble-minded" phenomena
with which it deals should be considered from those ofproperly apart
feeble-mindedness. There is no of the intelli-question well-developed
of some of these inhibited individuals. No doubt thegence feebly
content of the term mind could be stretched to cover these emotional
I think it to consider thephenomena; practically, helps separately
and the emotions. It is in this convictionbasis of the intellectheredity
for consideration.that these studies are submitted For,thoughtful
in is that of disorderedafter the chiefall, administering societyproblem
conduct is controlled and the of theemotions,conduct, by quality
emotions is the constitution.strongly tinged by hereditary
C. B. DAVENPORT.CONTENTS.
OR THE WANDERING WITH REFERENCENOMADISM, IMPULSE, SPECIAL,
TO HEREDITY.
PAGE
I. of the and nomenclatureScope subject-matter 7
II. Classification of nomadism 8
i III. The instinctwandering 9
1 . The instinct inwandering anthropoid apes 9
2. The 10 among primitive peoples
The instinct in children 123.
in adolescents 124. Wandering
IV. The of nomads: and classification 12family history Importance, sources,
Tables inV. distribution of the nomadic the 100 historiesshowing tendency family
i(tables to 8) 14
VI. Inheritance of the nomadic 20tendency
1. 20Hypothesis
2. Test of the 21hypothesis (table 9)
VII. Nomadic occupations 24
VIII. Association of the nomadic withimpulse psychoses 24
IX. 26Summary\j
X. Literature cited. . . ." 26
Abstracts of 100 histories of nomadsAppendix family 27
INHERITANCE OF TEMPERAMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO
TWINS AND SUICIDES.
I. Introduction 71
II. Definition 71
1. The statehyperkinetic 71
2. The statehypokinetic (depressed) 73
The alternation of and3. hyperkinesis hypokinesis 73
"Normal" mood4. 74
ofGeneral facts5. heredity 75
III. as toHypothesis heredity 75
IV. Test of the hypothesis 75
1. Method 75
2. Results 81
Discussion of table the unconformable cases 883. C; apparently
The behavior of the choleric-cheerful4. 93
Conclusion5. 94
V. Discussion of earlier studies on ofheredity temperament 95
100VI. Evidence for inheritance of drawn from studies of identical twins.temperament
106VII. Selection of intemperaments marriage
in 108VIII. Suicide relation to temperament
1. 108Introduction
2. inSuicides 109hyperkinetics in3. hypokinetics 113
The inheritance of these two of suicides 1 144. types
1IX. The of the suicidal 16specificity impulse
1 18X. Remarks on the of functionalcategories insanity
andXI. The and the in the the romantichyperkinetics hypokinetics population
the classic 119types
121NJXII. Summary
XIII. citedLiterature 123
3CONTENTS.4
APPENDIX. PAO
charts and of the families studieddescriptive legends 189Pedigree 125
LIST OF TABLES.
aTABLE A. formula? of descendants of mixture of excited andZygotic depressed
strains 76
distributions of inB. Most the corre-probable temperaments offspring
to each combination of of thesponding temperamental zygoticmake-up
parents 79
Distribution of of the various withC. progeny comparedmatings hypo-
thetical 82expectation
D. of Sums from table CComparison 89
E. A of the actual of various with fre-comparison frequency matings expected
on the of at randomquency assumption mating 107