Inquiries into human faculty and its developmentGalton, Francis
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Inquiries into human faculty and its development
Galton, Francis
Ability; Eugenics
VARIETY OF HUMAN NATURE
Many varieties may each be good of its kind; advantage
of variety; some peculiarities are, however, harmful.
FEATURES
Large number of elements in the human expression; of
touches in a portrait; difficulty of measuring the separate
features; or of selecting typical individuals; the typical
English face; its change at different historical periods;
colour of hair of modern English; caricatures.
COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE
(See Appendix for three Memoirs describing successive
stages of the method).--Object and principle of the process;
description of the plate--composites of medals; of family
portraits; of the two sexes and of various ages; of Royal
Engineers; the latter gives a clue to one direction in which
the English race might be improved; of criminals; of the
consumptive; ethnological application of the process.
BODILY QUALITIES
Anthropometric Committee; statistical anomalies in stature
as dependent on age; town and rural population; athletic
feats now and formerly; increase of stature of middle classes;
large number of weakly persons; some appearances of weakness
may be fallacious; a barrel and a wheel; definition
of word "eugenic."
ENERGY
It is the attribute of high races; useful stimuli to activity;
fleas, etc.; the preservation of the weakly as exercises for
pity; that of foxes for sport.
SENSITIVITY
Sensation and pain; range and grades of sensation;
idiots; men and women; the blind; reading by touch;
sailors; paucity of words to express gradation.
SEQUENCE OF TEST WEIGHTS
(See also Appendix, p. 248).--Geometric series of
weights; method of using them; the same principle is
applicable to other senses; the tests only measure the state
of faculties at time of trial; cautions in constructing the
test weights; multiplicity of the usual perceptions.
WHISTLES FOR AUDIBILITY OF SHRILL NOTES
(See also Appendix, p. 252).--Construction of them; loss
of power of hearing high notes as age advances; trials upon
animals; sensitivity of cats to high notes; of small dogs and
ponies.
ANTHROPOMETRIC REGISTERS
Want of anthropometric laboratories; of family records;
opportunities in schools; Admiralty records of life of each
seaman; family registers (see also 220); autotypes; medical
value of ancestral life-histories (see also 220); of their
importance to human eugenics.
UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF PECULIARITIES
Colour blindness usually unsuspected; unconsciousness of
high intellectual gifts; of peculiarities of mental imagery;
heredity of colour blindness in Quakers; Young and Dalton.
STATISTICAL METHODS
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