The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-23
NO sELE.MADE MEN
Successes are Product Of Ancestry
and Environment

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New York, Nov. 23.-Dr. Woods
Hutchinson, eminent physician and
biologist, who recently upset men,
bers Of the Four Hundred with lee
ture in which he declared there was
no such thing as blue blood" in an
interview today gave utterance to
some other novel views ON heredity.
Here are some of the things DR..
Hutchinson had to say about the hui
man race:
"Aristocracy does not pay either
the individual who claims it or the
nation which subsidies it.
There are no best families
There is no blue blood.
There is no aristocracy anywhere
based on anything but the possession
OF money
with the exception of William the
Sudden there is no member of a royal
family In Europe with brains enough
to make a living behind linen coun-
ter
"The American kings Of finance are
what the French call 'idiots-savants
Men are abnormally developed in one
direction like Blind Tom, the negro
pianist, but idiotic in every other dir
ection.
THE gamut of human achievement
is run in one generation" DR. Hut
Crimson continued. "Biologically
speaking the great man is a sport.
Many forms Of greatness are accom-
panied by lack of balance, and while
the great man breeds truehis descend
ants are just as apt to inherit this
lack Of balance as his genius.
His greatness, however, wins rich
es, generally speaking and that en-
ables his descendants to keep up a
certain artificial aristocracy but | be-
lieve the time will come when the
| transmission of great fortunes will be
forbidden by lawn fact when 1t will
be impossible to transmit from one
generation to another sum greater
than 10000"
What will become OF the rest of
a great private fortune? II will re-
vert to the state-to the people to
whom 1t really belongs"
"A great man Is the product of his
community OF his environment. Eight
tenths of our great men come from
poor families. They receive their ed
ucation from the community.
Poverty is a disease which eventu-
ally we will be able to control and
conquer like any other when wealth
is not concentrated in the hands Of
the few and when the laboring man
gets more than one or one and half
per cent of his earnings.
II contend that there is no such
thing as a self-made man, that a man
is absolutely the product Of his an
cestry and his environment. Investi-
cation has demonstrated that GER
tain amount OF real talent has been
developed in aristocratic families but
not to the extent that would justify
their subsidization by the govern
ment-the robbing of the people which
has taken place In European coun-
tries"
"There Is not a member of royal
family in Europe with the exception
VI WHlldIn lUe Ouuucus WuO tOuiu
make living behind liner counter.
Queen Victoria had not brains enough
to earn her living in any capacity Her
favorite novelist was Marie Corelli..
Her son. the late king, was even
worse He never read anything ex-
cept the Sporting News-the Pink
un! and things like that. He chose
his friends among shady financlers
and shady actresses, yet when he died
you would have thought the world had
suffered an irreparable loss.
"No Derby winner was ever the son
OF Derby winner or the sire of a
Derby winner. You must look for
aristocrats in the strains that haven't
produced them.
THE best opportunity for develop
ing a great man Is, In the city, fam
lily with an income OF $4,000 and the
country an income of $500. believe
in the aristocracy OF the average nor
NAL man and the average normal
woman" DR.. Hutchinson ended
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