PRESENTED BY
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INQUIEIES
INTO
HUMAN FACULTY
AND ITS
DEVELOPMENT
BY
FRANCIS GALTON, F.E.S.
AUTHOR OF ' HEREDITARY GENIUS,' ETC.
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CONTENTS.
Introduction, 1. — Origin and object of book, 1.
Variety of Human Nature, 2. — Many varieties may each be good of its kind, 2; advantage of variety, 3; some peculiarities are, however, harmful, 3.
Features, 4. — Large number of elements in the human expression, 4; of touches in a portrait, 5; difficulty of measuring the separate features, 5; or of selecting typical individuals, 5; the typical English face, 6; its change at different historical periods, 6; colour of hair of modern English, 7; caricatures, 8.
Composite Portraiture, 8 (see Appendix for three Memoirs describing successive stages of the method). — Object and principle of the process, 8; description of the frontispiece — composites of medals, 1 1; of family portraits, 12; of the two sexes and of various ages, 13; of
Royal Engineers, 14; the latter gives a clue to 03;ie direction in which the English race might be improved, 1 4; of criminals, 15; of" the consumptive, 1 6; ethnological application of the process, 1 8.
Bodily Qualities, 19. — Anthropometric Committee, 19; statistical anomalies in stature as dependent on age, 20; town and rural population, 20; athletic feats now and …