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Title: Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development

Contents: Variety of human nature -- Features -- Composite portraiture -- 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 -- 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.

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Author: Galton, Francis, 1822-1911

EBook No.: 11562

Published: Mar 1, 2004

Downloads: 143

Language: English

Subject: Ability

Subject: Eugenics

LoCC: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

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2024-09-19T22:10:09Z Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development

This edition has images.

Title: Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development

Contents: Variety of human nature -- Features -- Composite portraiture -- 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 -- 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.

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

Author: Galton, Francis, 1822-1911

EBook No.: 11562

Published: Mar 1, 2004

Downloads: 143

Language: English

Subject: Ability

Subject: Eugenics

LoCC: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

urn:gutenberg:11562:3 2004-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 Public domain in the USA. Galton, Francis en 1