Chapter I: Front Matter

The Contemporary Science Series.

Edited by Havelock Ellis.

I. THE EVOLUTION OF SEX. By Prof. PATRICK GEDDES and J. A. THOMSON.
With 90 Illustrations. Second Edition.

“The authors have brought to the task--as indeed their names
guarantee--a wealth of knowledge, a lucid and attractive method of
treatment, and a rich vein of picturesque language.”--_Nature._

II. ELECTRICITY IN MODERN LIFE. By G. W. DE TUNZELMANN. With 88
Illustrations.

“A clearly-written and connected sketch of what is known about
electricity and magnetism, the more prominent modern applications,
and the principles on which they are based.”--_Saturday Review._

III. THE ORIGIN OF THE ARYANS. By Dr. ISAAC TAYLOR. Illustrated.
Second Edition.

“Canon Taylor is probably the most encyclopædic all-round scholar
now living. His new volume on the Origin of the Aryans is a
first-rate example of the excellent account to which he can turn
his exceptionally wide and varied information.... Masterly and
exhaustive.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._

IV. PHYSIOGNOMY AND EXPRESSION. By P. MANTEGAZZA. Illustrated.

“Brings this highly interesting subject even with the latest
researches.... Professor Mantegazza is a writer full of life and
spirit, and the natural attractiveness of his subject is not
destroyed by his scientific handling of it.”--_Literary World_
(Boston).

V. EVOLUTION AND DISEASE. By J. B. SUTTON, F.R.C.S. With 135
Illustrations.

“The book is as interesting as a novel, without sacrifice of
accuracy or system, and is calculated to give an appreciation of
the fundamentals of pathology to the lay reader, while forming a
useful collection of illustrations of disease for medical
reference.”--_Journal of Mental Science._

VI. THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY. By G. L. GOMME. Illustrated.

“The fruit of some years of investigation on a subject which has of
late attracted much attention, and is of much importance, inasmuch
as it lies at the basis of our society.”--_Antiquary._

VII. THE CRIMINAL. By HAVELOCK ELLIS. Illustrated.

“An ably written, an instructive, and a most entertaining
book.”--_Law Quarterly Review._

“The sociologist, the philosopher, the philanthropist, the
novelist--all, indeed, for whom the study of human nature has any
attraction--will find Mr. Ellis full of interest and
suggestiveness.”--_Academy._

VIII. SANITY AND INSANITY. By Dr. CHARLES MERCIER. Illustrated.

“He has laid down the institutes of insanity.”--_Mind._

“Taken as a whole, it is the brightest book on the physical side of
mental science published in our time.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._

IX. HYPNOTISM. By Dr. ALBERT MOLL. Second Edition.

“Marks a step of some importance in the study of some difficult
physiological and psychological problems which have not yet
received much attention in the scientific world of
England.”--_Nature._

X. MANUAL TRAINING. By Dr. C. M. WOODWARD, Director of the Manual
Training School, St. Louis. Illustrated.

“There is no greater authority on the subject than Professor
Woodward.”--_Manchester Guardian._

XI. THE SCIENCE OF FAIRY TALES. By E. SIDNEY HARTLAND.

“Mr. Hartland’s book will win the sympathy of all earnest students,
both by the knowledge it displays, and by a thorough love and
appreciation of his subject, which is evident
throughout.”--_Spectator._

XII. PRIMITIVE FOLK. By ELIE RECLUS.

“An attractive and useful introduction to the study of some aspects
of ethnography.”--_Nature._

“For an introduction to the study of the questions of property,
marriage, government, religion,--in a word, to the evolution of
society,--this little volume will be found most
convenient.”--_Scottish Leader._

XIII. THE EVOLUTION OF MARRIAGE. By Professor LETOURNEAU.

“Among the distinguished French students of sociology, Professor
Letourneau has long stood in the first rank. He approaches the
great study of man free from bias and shy of generalisations. To
collect, scrutinise, and appraise facts is his chief business. In
the volume before us he shows these qualities in an admirable
degree.... At the close of his attractive pages he ventures to
forecast the future of the institution of marriage.”--_Science._

XIV. BACTERIA AND THEIR PRODUCTS. By Dr. G. SIMS WOODHEAD.
Illustrated.

“An excellent summary of the present state of knowledge of the
subject.”--_Lancet._

XV. EDUCATION AND HEREDITY. By J. M. GUYAU.

“It is at once a treatise on sociology, ethics, and pædagogics. It
is doubtful whether among all the ardent evolutionists who have had
their say on the moral and the educational question any one has
carried forward the new doctrine so boldly to its extreme logical
consequence.”--Professor SULLY in _Mind_.

XVI. THE MAN OF GENIUS. By Prof. LOMBROSO. Illustrated.

“By far the most comprehensive and fascinating collection of facts
and generalizations concerning genius which has yet been brought
together.”--_Journal of Mental Science._

XVII. THE GRAMMAR OF SCIENCE. By Prof. KARL PEARSON. Illustrated.

“The problems discussed with great ability and lucidity, and often
in a most suggestive manner, by Prof. Pearson, are such as should
interest _all_ students of natural science.”--_Natural Science._

XVIII. PROPERTY: ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT. By CH. LETOURNEAU,
General Secretary to the Anthropological Society, Paris, and
Professor in the School of Anthropology, Paris.

“M. Letourneau has read a great deal, and he seems to us to have
selected and interpreted his facts with considerable judgment and
learning.”--_Westminster Review._

XIX. VOLCANOES, PAST AND PRESENT. By Prof. EDWARD HULL, LL.D.,
F.R.S.

“A very readable account of the phenomena of volcanoes and
earthquakes.”--_Nature._

XX. PUBLIC HEALTH. By Dr. J. F. J. SYKES. With numerous
Illustrations.

“Not by any means a mere compilation or a dry record of details and
statistics, but it takes up essential points in evolution,
environment, prophylaxis, and sanitation bearing upon the
preservation of public health.”--_Lancet._

XXI. MODERN METEOROLOGY. AN ACCOUNT OF THE GROWTH AND PRESENT
CONDITION OF SOME BRANCHES OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCE. By FRANK
WALDO, PH.D., Member of the German and Austrian Meteorological
Societies, etc.; late Junior Professor, Signal Service, U.S.A. With
112 Illustrations.

“The present volume is the best on the subject for general use that
we have seen.”--_Daily Telegraph._

IMPORTANT ADDITION TO THE SERIES.

XXII. _THE GERM-PLASM: A THEORY OF HEREDITY. By August Weismann,
Professor in the University of Freiburg-in-Breisgau. With 24
Illustrations._

“There has been no work published since Darwin’s own books which
has so thoroughly handled the matter treated by him, or has done so
much to place in order and clearness the immense complexity of the
factors of heredity, or, lastly, has brought to light so many new
facts and considerations bearing on the subject.”--_British Medical
Journal._

XXIII. INDUSTRIES OF ANIMALS. By F. HOUSSAY. With numerous
Illustrations.

“His accuracy is undoubted, yet his facts out-marvel all romance.
These facts are here made use of as materials wherewith to form the
mighty fabric of evolution.”--_Manchester Guardian._

XXIV. MAN AND WOMAN. By HAVELOCK ELLIS. Illustrated.

“Altogether we must congratulate Mr. Ellis upon having produced a
book which, apart from its high scientific claims, will, by its
straightforward simplicity upon points of delicacy, appeal strongly
to all those readers outside purely scientific circles who may be
curious in these matters.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._

“This striking and important volume ... should place Mr. Havelock
Ellis in the front rank of scientific thinkers of the
time.”--_Westminster Review._

XXV. THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN CAPITALISM. By JOHN A. HOBSON, M.A.

“Every page affords evidence of wide and minute study, a weighing
of facts as conscientious as it is acute, a keen sense of the
importance of certain points as to which economists of all schools
have hitherto been confused and careless, and an impartiality
generally so great as to give no indication of his [Mr. Hobson’s]
personal sympathies.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._

XXVI. APPARITIONS AND THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE. By FRANK PODMORE, M.A.

“A very sober and interesting little book.... That
thought-transference is a real thing, though not perhaps a very
common thing, he certainly shows.”--_Spectator._

XXVII. AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY. By Professor C.
LLOYD MORGAN. With Diagrams.

“A strong and complete exposition of Psychology, as it takes shape
in a mind previously informed with biological science.... Well
written, extremely entertaining, and intrinsically
valuable.”--_Saturday Review._

XXVIII. THE ORIGINS OF INVENTION: A STUDY OF INDUSTRY AMONG
PRIMITIVE PEOPLES. By OTIS T. MASON, Curator of the Department of
Ethnology in the United States National Museum.

“A valuable history of the development of the inventive
faculty.”--_Nature._

XXIX. THE GROWTH OF THE BRAIN: A STUDY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN
RELATION TO EDUCATION. By HENRY HERBERT DONALDSON, Professor of
Neurology in the University of Chicago.

“We can say with confidence that Professor Donaldson has executed
his work with much care, judgment, and discrimination.”--_The
Lancet._

XXX. EVOLUTION IN ART: AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE LIFE-HISTORIES OF
DESIGNS. By Professor ALFRED C. HADDON.

_THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES._

EDITED BY HAVELOCK ELLIS.

THE MAN OF GENIUS.

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THE

MAN OF GENIUS.

BY

CESARE LOMBROSO,

_Professor of Legal Medicine at the University of Turin_.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:
WALTER SCOTT,
24, WARWICK LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1891.