Francis Galton

Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development

By Francis Galton. Sir Francis Galton invented the term eugenics and set down many of his observations and conclusions in this book which covers a variety of psychological phenomena and their subsequent measurement.

It discusses the variety of human nature, physical features, bodily qualities, emotions, psychology, anthropometric registers, character, criminals, gregarious and slavish instincts, intellectual differences, mental imagery, number forms, the history of twins, and selection and race, among others.

He also advocated a system of rewards for high quality families to have more children to encourage the better element of society to grow in size.

Contents:

Preface to the Second Edition

List of Works List of Memoirs.

Memoirs in Eugenics

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.

  1. Composite Portraits, Made by Combining Those of Many Different Persons into A Single Resultant Figure.
  2. Generic Images.

III. Composite Portraiture.

B.—The Relative Supplies from Town and Country Families to the Population of Future Generations.

C.—-An Apparatus for Testing the Delicacy with Which Weights Can Be Discriminated By Handling Them.

D.—Whistles for Testing the Upper Limits of Audible Sound in Different Individuals.

E.—Questions on Visualising and Other Allied Faculties.

Index

Addendum

Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer

About the author: Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, pyschometrician, statistician and founder of the science of eugenics. He was knighted in 1909.

This edition is an exact copy of the original and contains all the original illustrations.

284 pages. Paperback.

$18.95

Additional information

Weight 13.38 oz
Dimensions 6 × 0.59 × 9 in
Writer

Francis Galton

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