father-race

Updated: January 18, 2026

What sorts of unions improve the breed, and which are worse than both the father-race and the mother, it is not very easy to say. The subject was reviewed by M. Quatrefages in an elaborate report upon the occasion of the French Exhibition, of all things in the world.

Walter Bagehot - Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society