Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development

Macmillan, 1883 - 387 sidor

My general object has been to take note of the varied hereditary faculties of different men, and of the great differences in different families and races, to learn how far history may have shown the practicability of supplanting inefficient human stock by better strains, and to consider whether it might not be our duty to do so by such efforts as may be reasonable, thus exerting ourselves to further the ends of evolution more rapidly and with less distress than if events were left to their own course.

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Origin and object of book	1

sion 4 of touches in a portrait 5 difficulty of measuring the separate	8

of family portraits 12 of the two sexes and of various ages 13	18

to activity 25 fleas etc 26 the preservation of the weakly	27

sensation 28 idiots 28 men and women 29 the blind 30 read	33

Geometric series of weights 34 method of using them 35 the same	37

Admiralty records of life of each seaman 42 family registers 43 see	44

stancy and continuity of statistical results 49 groups and subgroups	50

visions caused by fasting etc 174 by spiritual discipline 174 see	176

from childish recollections 182 see 195 abstract ideas 183 cumu	184

tions of associations classified 197 their relative frequency 199	199

205 processes of literary composition 206 fluency of spiritual ideas	205

origin of the faculty of conscience 211 evolution is always behind	213

effects of nurture and nature 217 physiological signification of twin	242

251 New Guinea Group 252 Polynesia 252 ancient Syria	253

possible when the species has certain natural faculties viz great	268

56 observations of character at schools 57 varieties of likings	56

acter 61 some of them are normal and not morbid 62 their	68

cattle of the Damaras 70 foreoxen to waggon teams 72 conditions	75

power of tyranny vested in chiefs 79 political and religious persecu	82

see Appendix for this p 378 the first answers were from	90

remarkable instances of visualisation 95 96 the faculty is not neces	100

Bushmen 101 Eskimo 103 prehistoric men 104 admits of being	112

mutually corroborative statements 117 personal evidence given	127

the nondecimal nomenclature of numerals 128 perplexity caused	136

140 Plate IV 141 Colours assigned to numerals	143

illustrations by Dr J Key 151 the scheme of one seer unintelligible	154

simpler kinds of visions 155 unconsciousness of seers at first of their	163

pond 168 dreams and partial sensitiveness of brain 169 hallucina	170

four hypothetical cases discussed 274 a fifth that was suggested	276

derived from the general use of prayer 277 individual cases are	289

295 continued absence of distinct evidence that the faculty exists	295

the birthright of successive generations 299 our ignorance of	304

able 309 the socalled aborigines 310 on the variety	315

effects on a population in a few generations 320 example	321

quiries into the family antecedents of those who succeed in after life	327

man in nature 333 he should look upon himself as a freeman 334	334

before the Anthropological Institute 340 II Generic Images	354

TO THE POPULATION OF FUTURE GENERATIONS Memoir read in 1873	363

WEIGHTS CAN BE DISCRIMINATED BY HANDLING THEM Memoir read	370

circulated in 1880	378

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Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development
Francis Galton
Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1883

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Titel	Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development
Författare	Francis Galton
Utgivare	Macmillan, 1883
Original från	Harvard University
Digitaliserad	22 apr 2008
Längd	387 sidor

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