Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

✍ Scribed by Francis Galton

• Publisher: Galton Archives
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
LIST OF WORKS.
LIST OF MEMOIRS.
MEMOIRS IN EUGENICS.
CONTENTS.
PLATES
INTRODUCTION.
VARIETY OF HUMAN NATURE.
FEATURES.
COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE.
DESCRIPTION OF THE COMPOSITES.
BODILY QUALITIES.
ENERGY.
SENSITIVITY.
SEQUENCE OF TEST WEIGHTS.
WHISTLES FOR AUDIBILITY OF SHRILL NOTES.
ANTHROPOMETRIC REGISTERS.
UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF PECULIARITIES.
STATISTICAL METHODS.
CHARACTER.
CRIMINALS AND THE INSANE.
GREGARIOUS AND SLAVISH INSTINCTS.
INTELLECTUAL DIFFERENCES.
MENTAL IMAGERY.
VIVIDNESS OF MENTAL IMAGERY.
COLOUR REPRESENTATION.
NUMBER-FORMS.
COLOUR ASSOCIATIONS.
VISIONARIES.
NURTURE AND NATURE.
ASSOCIATIONS.
PSYCHOMETRIC EXPERIMENTS.
ANTECHAMBER OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
EARLY SENTIMENTS.
HISTORY OF TWINS.
DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS.
THE OBSERVED ORDER OF EVENTS.
SELECTION AND RACE.
INFLUENCE OF MAN UPON RACE.
POPULATION.
EARLY AND LATE MARRIAGES.
MARKS FOR FAMILY MERIT.
ENDOWMENTS.
CONCLUSION.
APPENDIX
A.—COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE.
I. COMPOSITE PORTRAITS, MADE BY COMBINING THOSE OF MANY DIFFERENT PERSONS INTO A SINGLE RESULTANT FIGURE.
II. GENERIC IMAGES.
III. COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE.
B.—THE RELATIVE SUPPLIES FROM TOWN AND COUNTRY FA
C.—AN APPARATUS FOR TESTING THE DELICACY WITH WHI
D.—WHISTLES FOR TESTING THE UPPER LIMITS OF AUDIB
E.—QUESTIONS ON VISUALISING AND OTHER ALLIED FACU
INDEX
ADDENDA: RESTORED SECTIONS
ENTHUSIASM
POSSIBILITIES OF THEOCRATIC INTERVENTION
Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer

✦ Subjects

science,biology,eugenics,edbyfs