Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development

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Author

Galton, Francis, 1822-1911

Title

Inquiries into human faculty and its development

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E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Robert Prince, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

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BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Eugenics

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eBook-No.

11562

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Release Date

March 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.INQUIRIES into — HUMAN FACULTY — AND ITS — DEVELOPMENT
2. 2.F.R.S. — First issue of this Edition 1907
3. 3.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
4. 4.LIST OF WORKS. — Galton also edited:
5. 5.LIST OF MEMOIRS. — The following Memoirs by the author have been freely made use of in the following pages:-- — Memoirs in Eugenics . — The following books by the author have been referred or alluded to in the following pages:--
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.PLATES
8. 8.INTRODUCTION
9. 9.VARIETY OF HUMAN NATURE
10. 10.FEATURES
11. 11.COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE
12. 12.BODILY QUALITIES
13. 13.ENERGY
14. 14.SENSITIVITY
15. 15.SEQUENCE OF TEST WEIGHTS
16. 16.WHISTLES FOR AUDIBILITY OF SHRILL NOTES
17. 17.ANTHROPOMETRIC REGISTERS
18. 18.UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF PECULIARIEITES
19. 19.STATISTICAL METHODS
20. 20.CHARACTER
21. 21.CRIMINALS AND THE INSANE
22. 22.GREGARIOUS AND SLAVISH INSTINCTS
23. 23.INTELLECTUAL DIFFERENCES
24. 24.MENTAL IMAGERY
25. 25.NUMBER-FORMS
26. 26.COLOUR ASSOCIATIONS
27. 27.VISIONARIES
28. 28.NURTURE AND NATURE
29. 29.ASSOCIATIONS
30. 30.PSYCHOMETRIC EXPERIMENTS — TABLE I — RECURRENT ASSOCIATIONS — TABLE II — RELATIVE NUMBER OF ASSOCIATIONS — FORMED AT DIFFERRENT PERIODS OF LIFE — TABLE III — COMPARISON BETWEEN THE QUALITY OF THE WORDS AND THAT OF — THE IDEAS IN IMMEDIATE ASSOCIATION WITH THEM.
31. 31.ANTECHAMBER OF CONSCIOUSNESS
32. 32.EARLY SENTIMENTS
33. 33.HISTORY OF TWINS
34. 34.DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS [14]
35. 35.THE OBSERVED ORDER OF EVENTS
36. 36.SELECTION AND RACE
37. 37.INFLUENCE OF MAN UPON RACE
38. 38.POPULATION
39. 39.EARLY AND LATE MARRIAGES — Number of Female Descendants who themselves become Mothers.
40. 40.MARKS FOR FAMILY MERIT
41. 41.ENDOWMENTS
42. 42.CONCLUSION
43. 43.A. COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE
44. 44.B. THE RELATIVE SUPPLIES FROM TOWN AND COUNTRY FAMILIES TO THE POPULATION OF FUTURE GENERATIONS — TABLE I — Census Returns of 1000 Families of Factory Hands in Coventry, and 1000 Families of Agricultural Labourers in Warwickshire, grouped according to the Age of the Mother and the Number of Children in the Family. — TABLE II — Summary of Fertility of Urban and Rural Mothers
45. 45.C. AN APPARATUS FOR TESTING THE DELICACY WITH WHICH WEIGHTS CAN BE DISCRIMINATED BY HANDLING THEM.
46. 46.D. WHISTLES FOR TESTING THE UPPER LIMITS OF AUDIBLE SOUND IN DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS.
47. 47.E. QUESTIONS ON VISUALISING AND OTHER ALLIED FACULTIES
48. 48.INDEX

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