...and powers " of reason. Certainly the class G of such animals is far superior to the g of humankind. COMPARISON OF THE TWO CLASSIFICATIONS. Is reputation...without zeal, nor zeal without capacity, nor even a com*' bination of both of them, without an adequate power of doing a great deal of very laborious work....

...high social or official position I speak of the reputation of a leader of opinion, of an originator By natural ability, I mean those qualities of intellect...disposition, which urge and qualify a man to perform those acts that lead to reputation. I do not mean capacity without zeal, nor zeal without capacity,...

...literary life than his willingness to write for writing's sake. Gallon, in his work on "Heredity," says: "By natural ability I mean those qualities of intellect...disposition which urge and qualify a man to perform acts which lead to reputation. A man of ability is one whose nature, when left to itself, will, urged by...

...thing as latent genius, because it is in the nature of genius that it surmounts all obstacles. He says: By natural ability, I mean those qualities of intellect...disposition, which urge and qualify a man to perform acts which lead to reputation. I do not mean capacity without zeal, nor zeal without capacity, nor even...

...conception. XII No psychologist has given a better definition of ability than Sir Francis Galton. He says : " By natural ability I mean those qualities of intellect...do not mean capacity without zeal, nor zeal without 1 The Creative Imagination. capacity, nor even a combination of both of them without an adequate power...

...Galton explained that he meant by "genius," natural ability, and then proceeded to define it thus : By natural ability I mean those qualities of intellect...without an adequate power of doing a great deal of laborious work. But _I_mean_a. nature which, when left to itself, will^jjiged by an inherent stimulus,...

...mean those qualities of intellect and disposition, which urge and qualify a man to perform acts which lead to reputation. I do not mean capacity without...power of doing a great deal of very laborious work. Bat I mean a nature which, when left to itself, will, urged by an inherent stimulus, climb the path...

...upon a favorable appraisal of a man's character and natural abilities.” Natural ability represented those qualities of intellect and disposition “which...a man to perform acts that lead to reputation.” An individual with this natural ability pursued his goals zealously and persevered until all obstacles...

...normal distribution. His objecnve was to classify people by "natural ability," by which he meant . . . those qualities of intellect and disposition, which...man to perform acts that lead to reputation. ... I mean a nature which, when left to itself, will, urged by an inherent stimulus, climb the path that...

...explicitly, though his definition disqualifies it as a synonym for twentieth-century test intelligence: 'By natural ability, I mean those qualities of intellect...power of doing a great deal of very laborious work' (Galton, 1962: 77). Now, this is not how intelligence testers defined the object of their investigations....