TABLE III.--ABILITY CORRELATED WITH ENVIRONMENT. _____________________________________________________________________ | | | | | Grades of Success. | Contributory | Corresponding Abilities. | | | Combinations. | | |____________________|_______________|________________________________| | | | | | | | | 1 | AE | AE | 2 of A | -- | -- | | 2 | AF | BE | 1 of A | 1 of B | -- | | 3 | BF | -- | -- | 1 of B | -- | | 4 | BG | CF | -- | 1 of B | 1 of C | | 5 | CG | CG | -- | -- | 2 of C | |____________________|_______|_______|__________|__________|__________| It clearly appears from this table that the effect of correlation between Ability and Environment is to increase, and not to diminish, the closeness of association between Success and Ability. Indeed, if the correlation were perfect, Success would become an equal measure _both_ of Ability and of Favourableness of Environment. These arguments are true for each and every branch of Success, and are therefore true for all: Ability being construed as Appropriate Ability, and Environment as Appropriate Environment. The general conclusion is that Success is, statistically speaking, a magnified, but otherwise trustworthy, sign of Ability, high Success being associated with high, but not an equally high, grade of Ability, and low with low, but not an equally low. A few instances to the contrary no more contradict this important general conclusion than a few cases of death at very early or at very late ages contradict the tables of expectation of life of a newly-born infant. CHAPTER VI.--NOMENCLATURE OF KINSHIP.