. Mental and moral heredity in royalty, a statistical study in history and psychology . hief thrones ofEurope during the three centuries following the Renais-sance. France has shown us the Bourbons, beginningwith characters who were either distinctively strong orelse equally weak, followed by characters mediocre ordissolute, and ending with mediocrities who were oftenhigh in the moral scale. We have found the Hapsburgsin Spain first appearing either strong or eccentric, fol-lowed by weaknesses, coupled with the same eccentrici-ties, while the Bourbons in Spain carried the later type,even to th
. Mental and moral heredity in royalty, a statistical study in history and psychology . hief thrones ofEurope during the three centuries following the Renais-sance. France has shown us the Bourbons, beginningwith characters who were either distinctively strong orelse equally weak, followed by characters mediocre ordissolute, and ending with mediocrities who were oftenhigh in the moral scale. We have found the Hapsburgsin Spain first appearing either strong or eccentric, fol-lowed by weaknesses, coupled with the same eccentrici-ties, while the Bourbons in Spain carried the later type,even to the present day. All these changes can be prophe-sied from a study of the different ingredients of bloodin the pedigrees formed, provided full charts, containingthe maternal side, be constructed. We shall now seethese same mental peculiarities, and also the facial,appearing in the house of Austria, and determine howfar their appearances and absences are in keeping withthe prediction which inheritance, pure and simple, willwarrant. The Austrian branch began with Ferdinand I[515], a 172. MAXIMILIAN I, EMPEROR {™\
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