Inquiries into human faculty and its development
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1. Front matter2. HUMAN FACULTY3. DEVELOPMENT4. F.R.S.5. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION6. LIST OF WORKS.7. LIST OF MEMOIRS.8. CONTENTS9. PLATES10. INTRODUCTION11. VARIETY OF HUMAN NATURE12. FEATURES13. COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE14. BODILY QUALITIES15. ENERGY16. SENSITIVITY17. SEQUENCE OF TEST WEIGHTS18. WHISTLES FOR AUDIBILITY OF SHRILL NOTES19. ANTHROPOMETRIC REGISTERS20. UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF PECULIARIEITES21. STATISTICAL METHODS22. CHARACTER23. CRIMINALS AND THE INSANE24. GREGARIOUS AND SLAVISH INSTINCTS25. INTELLECTUAL DIFFERENCES26. MENTAL IMAGERY27. NUMBER-FORMS28. COLOUR ASSOCIATIONS29. VISIONARIES30. NURTURE AND NATURE31. ASSOCIATIONS32. PSYCHOMETRIC EXPERIMENTS33. ANTECHAMBER OF CONSCIOUSNESS34. EARLY SENTIMENTS35. HISTORY OF TWINS36. DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS [14]37. THE OBSERVED ORDER OF EVENTS38. SELECTION AND RACE39. INFLUENCE OF MAN UPON RACE40. POPULATION41. EARLY AND LATE MARRIAGES42. MARKS FOR FAMILY MERIT43. ENDOWMENTS44. CONCLUSION45. APPENDIX46. A. COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE47. B. THE RELATIVE SUPPLIES FROM TOWN AND COUNTRY FAMILIES TO THE POPULATION OF FUTURE GENERATIONS48. C. AN APPARATUS FOR TESTING THE DELICACY WITH WHICH WEIGHTS CAN BE DISCRIMINATED BY HANDLING THEM.49. D. WHISTLES FOR TESTING THE UPPER LIMITS OF AUDIBLE SOUND IN DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS.50. E. QUESTIONS ON VISUALISING AND OTHER ALLIED FACULTIES51. INDEX