. Mental and moral heredity in royalty, a statistical study in history and psychology . e the closest related to the high wave centering aroundthe Emperor Charles V; and it is probable that the num-ber of more distant relations would not have been solarge, but for the close intermarriages, giving the geniusa chance to be further perpetuated than would ordinarilyhave been the case. The kings of Spain never again had anything of therenowned abilities of Isabella, Charles V, or the cele-brated warriors of early days, like Alfonso VI (1126),James I, of Aragon, or John the Great, of mig
. Mental and moral heredity in royalty, a statistical study in history and psychology . e the closest related to the high wave centering aroundthe Emperor Charles V; and it is probable that the num-ber of more distant relations would not have been solarge, but for the close intermarriages, giving the geniusa chance to be further perpetuated than would ordinarilyhave been the case. The kings of Spain never again had anything of therenowned abilities of Isabella, Charles V, or the cele-brated warriors of early days, like Alfonso VI (1126),James I, of Aragon, or John the Great, of might have been that some of the eldest sons shouldhave inherited the great qualities instead of the inferiorones, but Spain may be said to have been unlucky in this;and as the next three, Philip II, III, and IV, did not getthe best, in each succeeding generation the chances ofgenius reappearing became more and more dim until theprobabilities of a reversion were entirely unlikely. Let us now notice the psycho-neuroses in this same * Dunlop, Mem. Spain, vol. i, p. 183, also Humes
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