[Ads-l] nature or nurture

[Stephen Goranson]

Francis Galton (1822-1911) is often credited with coining "nature versus nurture." Or "nature or nurture."
But google books has "guardianship by nature [,] or nurture" as a legal phrase going back to at least 1820, and maybe (in heinonline or elsewhere) yet earlier.

SG

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