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
Difficulty of watching the mind in operation; how it may
be overcome; irksomeness of the process; tentative experiments;
method used subsequently; the number of recurrent
associations; memory; ages at which associations are
formed; similarity of the associations in persons of the same
country and class of society; different descriptions of
associations,
classified; their relative frequency; abstract ideas are
slowly formed; multifariousness of sub-conscious operations.
ANTECHAMBER OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Act of thinking analysed; automatic mental work; fluency
of words and of imagery; processes of literary composition;
fluency of spiritual ideas; visionary races of men; morbid
ideas of inspiration (see Enthusiasm).
EARLY SENTIMENTS
Accidents of education, religion, country, etc.; deaf-mutes
and religious ritual; religion in its essentials; all religious
teachers preach faith and instil prejudices; origin of the
faculty of conscience; evolution is always behindhand;
good men of various faiths; the fear of death; terror is
easily taught; gregarious animals (see also 47); suspiciousness
in the children of criminals; Dante and contemporary
artists on the terrors of hell; aversion is easily taught,
Eastern ideas of clean and unclean acts; the foregoing
influences affect entire classes.
HISTORY OF TWINS
It supplies means of comparing the effects of nurture and
nature; physiological signification of twinship; replies to
a circular of inquiries; eighty cases of close resemblance
between twins; the points in which their resemblance was
closest; extracts from the replies; interchangeableness of
likeness; cases of similar forms of insanity in both twins;
their tastes and dispositions; causes of growing dissimilarity
mainly referred to illness; partly to gradual development of
latent elements of dissimilarity; effect of childish illnesses
in permanently checking growth of head; parallel lives and
deaths among twins; necessitarianism; twenty cases of great
dissimilarity; extracts from the replies; evidence of slight
exaggeration; education is almost powerless to diminish
natural difference of character; simile of sticks floating
down a brook; depth of impressions made in childhood;
they are partly due to the ease with which parents and
children understand one another; cuckoos forget the teachings
of their foster-mothers.
DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS
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