Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

Main contents

Contents

Page

Preface to the second edition

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 peculiarities

Statistical methods

Character

Criminals and the insane

Gregarious and slavish instincts

Intellectual differences

Reference to hereditary genius

Mental imagery

Number-forms

Colour associations

Visionaries

Nurture and nature

Associations

Psychometric experiments

Antechamber of consciousness

Early sentiments

History of twins

Domestication of animals

The observed order of events

Selection and race

Influence of man upon race

Population

Early and late marriages

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

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

 

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