Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
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INQUIRIES into
HUMAN FACULTY
AND ITS
DEVELOPMENT
F.R.S.
First issue of this Edition 1907
First issue of this Edition 1907
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
LIST OF WORKS.
Galton also edited:
Galton also edited:
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:--
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:--
CONTENTS
PLATES
INQUIRIES INTO HUMAN FACULTY
INTRODUCTION
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 PECULIARIEITES
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
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.
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.
ANTECHAMBER OF CONSCIOUSNESS
EARLY SENTIMENTS
HISTORY OF TWINS
DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS [14]
THE OBSERVED ORDER OF EVENTS
SELECTION AND RACE
INFLUENCE OF MAN UPON RACE
POPULATION
EARLY AND LATE MARRIAGES
Number of Female Descendants who themselves become Mothers.
Number of Female Descendants who themselves become Mothers.
MARKS FOR FAMILY MERIT
ENDOWMENTS
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
A. COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE
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
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
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
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