John White draws on the work of Galton, Pearson, Burt, Goddard and Terman in his search for the truth about intelligence testing. He looks at the similarities between the views of the Galtonians and the Puritans who also believed in predestination - to salvation and damnation.
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..