Inquiries into human faculty and its development — John Shaqi
Inquiries into human faculty and its developmentGalton, Francis
Science
Inquiries into human faculty and its development
Galton, Francis
Ability; Eugenics
Objects of statistical science; constancy and continuity
of statistical results; groups and sub-groups; augival or
ogival curves; wide application of the ogival; method;
example; first method of comparing two ogival groups;
centesimal grades; example; second method of comparing
ogival groups; statistical records easily made with a
pricker.
CHARACTER
Caprice and coyness of females; its cause; observations
of character at schools; varieties of likings and antipathies;
horror of snakes is by no means universal; the horror of
blood among cattle is variable.
CRIMINALS AND THE INSANE
Peculiarities of criminal character; some of them are
normal and not morbid; their inheritance as in the Jukes
family; epileptics and their nervous instability; insanity;
religious rapture; strange views of the insane on individuality;
their moody segregation; the religious discipline of
celibacy, fasting and solitude (see also 125); large field of
study among the insane and idiotic.
GREGARIOUS AND SLAVISH INSTINCTS
Most men shrink from responsibility; study of gregarious
animals: especially of the cattle of the Damaras; fore-oxen
to waggon teams; conditions of safety of herds; cow and
young calf when approached by lions; the most effective
size of herd; corresponding production of leaders; similarly
as regards barbarian tribes and their leaders; power of
tyranny vested in chiefs; political and religious persecutions;
hence human servility; but society may flourish without
servility; its corporate actions would then have statistical
constancy; nations who are guided by successive orators,
etc., must be inconstant; the romantic side of servility; free
political life.
INTELLECTUAL DIFFERENCES
Reference to _Hereditary Genius_.
MENTAL IMAGERY
Purport of inquiry; circular of questions (see Appendix
for this); the first answers were from scientific men,
and were negative; those from persons in general society
were quite the reverse; sources of my materials; they are
mutually corroborative. Analysis of returns from 100
persons mostly of some eminence; extracts from replies of
those in whom the visualising faculty is highest; those in
whom it is mediocre; lowest; conformity between these
and other sets of haphazard returns; octile, median, etc.,
values; visualisation of colour; some liability to exaggeration;
blindfold chess-players; remarkable instances of visualisation;
the faculty is not necessarily connected with keen sight or
tendency to dream; comprehensive imagery; the faculty in different
sexes and ages; is strongly hereditary; seems notable among
the French; Bushmen; Eskimo; prehistoric men; admits of being
educated; imagery usually fails in flexibility; special and generic
images (see also Appendix); use of the faculty.
NUMBER-FORMS
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