Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development

by Francis Galton

INDEX

For an analysis of the several chapters, see Table of Contents.Abbadie, A. d'
Aborigines
About, E.
Abstract ideas,
like composite portraits;
are formed with difficulty
Admiralty, records of lives of sailors
Adoption
Africa,
oxen;
captive animals;
races of men
Alert, H.M.S.,
the crew of
Alexander the Great,
medals of;
his help to Aristotle
America,
captive animals;
change of population
Animals and birds,
their attachments and aversions
ANTECHAMBER OF CONSCIOUSNESS
ANTHROPOMETRIC REGISTERS;
anthropometric committee;
laboratories
Appold, Mr.
Arabs,
their migrations
Ashurakbal,
his menagerie
ASSOCIATIONS
(see also Psychometric experiments)
Assyria,
captive animals
Athletic feats in present and past generations
Augive, or ogive
Austin, A.L.
Australia,
tame kites;
change of population
Automatic thought
Aversion
Barclay, Capt.,
of Uri
Barrel
Barth, Dr.
Bates, W.H.
Baume, Dr.
Belief (ie Faith)
Bevington, Miss L.
Bible, family
Bidder, G.
Blackburne, Mr.
Blake, the artist
Bleuler and Lehman
Blind, the
Blood, terror at
BODILY QUALITIES
Boisbaudran, Lecoq de
Breaking out (violent passion)
Brierre de Boismont
Bruhl, Prof.
Burton, Capt.
Bushmen,
their skill in drawing;
in Damara Land
Campbell, J. (of Islay)
Candidates, selection of
Captive Animals (see Domestication of Animals)
Cats can hear very shrill notes
Cattle,
their terror at blood;
gregariousness of;
renders them easy to tend;
cow guarding her newly-born calf;
cattle highly prized by Damaras
Celibacy as a religious exercise;
effect of endowments upon;
prudential;
to prevent continuance of an inferior race
Centesimal grades
Chance, influence of, in test experiments
Change, love of, characteristic of civilised man
CHARACTER;
observations on at schools;
changing phases of
Charterhouse College
Cheltenham College
Chess, played blindfold
Children,
mental imagery;
associations;
effect of illness on growth of head;
moral impressions on;
they and their parents understand each other;
can hear shrill notes
Chinese, the
Clock face, origin of some Number-Forms
Colleges, celibacy of Fellows of
COLOUR ASSOCIATIONS
(see also chap. on Visionaries);
colour blindness
Comfort, love of, a condition of domesticability
Competitive examinations
COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE;
also Memoirs I., II., and III. in Appendix
Composite origin of some visions;
of ideas;
of memories
Composition,
automatic;
literary
CONCLUSION
Conscience,
defective in criminals;
its origin
Consciousness
(see Antechamber of);
ignorance of its relation to the unconscious lives of cells of organism;
its limited ken
Consumption, types of features connected with
Cooper, Miss
CRIMINALS AND THE INSANE;
criminals, their features;
their peculiarities of character;
their children
Cromwell's soldiers
Cuckoo
DALTON,
colour blindness
was a Quaker
Damaras,
their grade of sensitivity;
their wild cattle and gregariousness;
their pride in them;
races of men in Damara Land
Dante
Darwin, Charles,
impulse given by him to new lines of thought;
on conscience;
notes on twins;
letter of Mr. A. L. Austin forwarded by
Darwin, Lieut., R.E.,
photographs of Royal Engineers
Deaf-mutes
Death, fear of; its orderly occurrence;
death and reproduction of
cells, and their unknown relation to consciousness
Despine, Prosper
Difference, verbal difficulty in defining
many grades of
Discipline, ascetic
Discovery, H.M.S., the crew of
Discrimination of weights by handling them, etc.
Dividualism; also
Doctrines, diversity of
Dogs, their capacity for hearing shrill notes
DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS
Dreaming
Du Cane, Sir E.
Duncan, Dr. Mathews
EARLSWOOD ASYLUM for idiots
EARLY AND LATE MARRIAGES
EARLY SENTIMENTS
Ecstasy
Editors of newspapers
Egg, raw and boiled, when spun
Egypt, captive animals
Ellis, Rev. Mr. (Polynesia)
Emigrants, value of their breed;
migration of barbarian races
ENDOWMENTS
ENERGY
Engineers, Royal, features of
English race, change of type; colour
of hair; one direction in which
it might be improved; change
of stature; various components of
ENTHUSIASM
Epileptic constitution
Eskimo, faculty of drawing and map-making
Eugenic, definition of the word
Events, observed order of
Evolution, its effects are always behind-hand;
its slow progress; man
should deliberately further it
Exiles, families of
Experiments, psychometric
FACES seen in the fire, on wall paper, etc.,
Faith
Family likenesses; records; merit,
marks for
Fashion, changes of
Fasting, visions caused by;
fasting girls
FEATURES
Fellows of colleges
Fertility at different ages; is small
in highly-bred animals
Fire-faces
First Cause, an enigma
Flame, sensitive, and high notes
Fleas are healthful stimuli to animals
Fluency of language and ideas
Forest clearing
Forms in which numerals are seen (seeNumber-Forms); months; letters;
dates
Foxes, preservation of
France, political persecution in
French, the, imaginative faculty of
Friends, the Society of (see Quakers)
GARCILASSO DE LA VEGA
Generations, length of and effect in population;
in town and country
populations
Generic images; theory of
Geometric series of test-objects; geometric mean
Gerard, Jules
Gesture-language
Gibbon, amphitheatrical shows
Goethe and his visualised rose
Gomara
Goodwin, Mr.
Grades, deficiency of in language;
centesimal
Graham, Dr., on idiots (note)
GREGARIOUS AND SLAVISH INSTINCTS;
gregariousness of cattle;
gregarious animals quickly learn from
one another
Gull, Sir W., on vigour of members of
large families; on medical life-histories
Guy's Hospital Reports (consumptive
types)
Gypsies
HAIR, colour of
Hall, Capt.
Hallucinations, cases of; origin of;
of great men
Handwriting; of twins
Hanwell Asylum, lunatics when at exercise
Hatherley, Lord
Haweis, Mrs.,
words and faces;
visions,
Head measured for curve of growth
Hearne (N. America)
Height, comparative, of present and past
generation,
Henslow, Rev. G.,
imagery;
Number-Forms;
visions,
Heredity, the family tie;
of colour blindness in Quakers;
of criminality;
of faculty of visualising;
of seeing Number-Forms;
of colour associations with sound;
of seership;
of enthusiasm;
of character and its help in the teaching
of children by their parents;
that of a good stock is a valuable patrimony,
Hershon, Mr., the Talmud,
Hill, Rev. A.D.,
Hippocrates and snake symbol,
History of twins,
Holbein,
Holland, F.M.,
Hottentots, keenness of sight,
(see Bushmen)
Human Nature, variety of,
Humanity of the future, power of present
generation of men upon it,
Hutchinson, Mr.,
Huxley, Professor,
on sucking pigs in New Guinea;
generic images,
Hysteria,
Idiots, deficient in energy; in sensitivity,
Illness, permanent effect on growth,
Illumination, method of regulating it
when making composites;
requires to be controlled,
Illusions, (see also Hallucinations, cases of)
Imagery, mental,
Indian Civil Service, candidates for,
Individuality, doubt of among the insane,
among the sane,
Influence of Man upon race,
Insane, the,
similar forms of it in twins,
Inspiration analogous to ordinary fluency,
morbid forms of,
Instability,
Instincts, variety of,
criminal;
slavish (see chapter on Gregarious and
Slavish Instincts)
Intellectual differences,
Jesuits in S. America,
Jukes, criminal family,
Kensington Gardens, the promenaders in,
Key, Dr. J.,
Kingsley, Miss R.,
Kirk, Sir John,
Laboratories, anthropometric,
Larden, W.,
Legros, Prof.,
Lehman and Bleuler, (note)
Letters, association of colour with,
Lewis, G.H.,
Lewis, Miss,
Life-histories, their importance,
Livingstone, Dr.,
Longevity of families,
Macalister, Dr.,
M'Leod, Prof. H.,
Madness (see Insanity)
Mahomed, Dr.,
Malthus;
marriage portions,
Man, his influence upon race,
Mann, Dr.,
Marks for family merit,
Marlborough College,
Marriages,
early and late,
with persons of good race;
marriage portions;
of Fellows of Colleges;
promotion of,
Medians and quartiles,
Memory,
physiological basis of;
confusion of separate memories,
Mental imagery,
Meredith, Mrs.,
Milk offered by she-goats and wolves to children,
Moors, migrations of the,
Moreau, Dr. J. (of Tours),
Morphy, P.,
Muscular and accompanying senses, tests of,
Mussulmans,
small fear of death;
things clean and unclean,
Namaquas in Damara Land,
(see also Bushmen)
Napoleon I.,
views in connection with the
faculty of visualising;
his star,
Nature (see Nurture and Nature)
Necessitarianism,
Negro displaced by Berbers;
by Bushmen;
exported as slaves;
replaceable by Chinese,
Nervous irritability, as distinct from sensitivity,
New Guinea,
Nicholson, Sir C.,
Notes, audibility of very shrill,
Nourse, Prof. J.E.,
Number-forms,
Numerals, their nomenclature;
characters assigned to them;
coloured,
Nurture and nature;
history of twins,
Nussbaumer, brothers,
Observed order of events,
Octiles,
Ogive (statistical curve)
Osborn, Mr.
Osten Sacken, Baron v.
Oswell, Mr.
Oxen (see Cattle)
Parkyns, Mansfield
Peculiarities, unconsciousness of
Persecution, its effect on the character of races
Peru, captive animals in
Pet animals
Petrie, Flinders
Phantasmagoria
Photographic composites (see Composite Portraiture);
registers;
summed effect of a thousand brief exposures;
order of exposure is indifferent
Phthisis, typical features of
Piety, morbid forms of, in the epileptic and insane;
in the hysterical
Pigafetta
Polynesia, pet eels
Ponies, their capacity for hearing shrill notes
Poole, R. Stuart
Poole, W.H.
Population
population in town and country;
changes of;
decays of;
effects of early marriages on
Portraits, composite (see Composite Portraiture);
number of elements in a portrait;
the National Portrait Gallery
Prejudices instilled by doctrinal teachers;
affect the judgments of able men
Presence-chamber in mind
Pricker for statistical records
Princeton College, U.S.
Prisms, double image
Proudfoot, Mr.
Psychometric experiments
Puritans
Quakers, frequency of colour blindness
Quartiles
Questions on visualising and other allied faculties
Quetelet
Race and Selection;
influence of man upon;
variety and number of races in different countries;
sexual apathy of decaying races;
signs of superior race;
pride in being of good race
Races established to discover the best horses to breed from
Rapp, General
Rapture, religious
Rayleigh, Lord, sensitive flame and high notes
Reindeer, difficulty of taming
Religion
Renaissance
Republic of self-reliant men;
of life generally;
cosmic
Revivals, religious
Richardson, Sir John
Roberts, C. (note)
Roget, J.
Rome, wild animals captured for use of
Rosiere, marriage portion to
Sailors, keenness of eyesight tested;
admiralty life-histories of
St. James's Gazette (Phantasmagoria)
Savages, eyesight of
Schools, biographical notes at;
opportunities of masters;
observation of characters at
Schuster, Prof.
Seal in pond, a simile;
captured and tamed
Seemann, Dr.
Seers (see chapter on Visionaries);
heredity of
Segregation, passionate terror at among cattle
Selection and race
Self, becoming less personal
Sensitivity
Sentiments, early
Sequence of test weights
Serpent worship
Servility (see Gregarious and Slavish Instincts);
its romantic side
Sexual differences in sensitivity;
in character;
apathy in highly-bred animals
Siberia, change of population in
Slavishness (see Gregarious and Slavish Instincts)
Smith, B. Woodd;
curious Number-Form communicated by
Smythe, G.F.
Snakes, horror of some persons at;
antipathy to, not common among mankind
Socrates and his catalepsy
Solitude
Sound, association of colour with
Space and time
Spain, the races in
Speke, Capt.
Spencer, H., blended outlines
Spiritual sense, the
Stars of great men
Statistical methods;
statistical constancy;
that of republics of self-reliant men;
statistics of mental imagery;
pictorial statistics
Stature of the English
Steinitz, Mr.
Stones, Miss
Stow, Mr.
Suna, his menagerie
Talbot Fox
Talmud, frequency of the different numerals in
Tameness, learned when young;
tame cattle preserved to breed from
Tastes, changes in
Terror at snakes;
at blood;
is easily taught
Test objects, weights, etc.
Time and space
Town and country population
Trousseau, Dr.
Turner, the painter
Twins, the history of
Typical centre
Tyranny
Ulloa
Unclean, the, and the clean
Unconcsciousness of peculiarities;
in visionaries
Variety of human nature
Visionaries;
visionary families and races
Watches, magnetised
Welch, Mrs. Kempe
West Indies, change, of population in
Wheel and barrel
Whistles for audibility of shrill notes
Wildness taught young
Wilkes, Capt.
Winchester College
Wollaston, Dr.
Wolves, children suckled by
Women, relative sensitivity of;
coyness and caprice;
visualising faculty
Woodfield, Mr. (Australia)
Words, visualised pictures associated with
Workers, solitary
Young, Dr.
Yule, Colonel
Zebras, hard to tame
Zoological Gardens, whistles tried at;
snakes fed;
seal at
Zukertort, Mr.

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