If you could spend ten years of your life in deep study of any single thinker--their life, ideas, and personal correspondence--and emerge by producing a magisterial book that changed how that person was understood, who would it be?
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An excellent choice. His 'Hereditary Genius' (1869) was ahead of its time (http://galton.org/books/hereditary-genius/text/pdf/galton-1869-genius-v3.pdf …). "I have no patience with the hypothesis [...] that babies are born pretty much alike..." "It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality."
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